Many people in Japan depend on the NERV service for earthquake alerts. Unfortunately, they’ll no longer be able to receive them on X.
The app itself has alerts so I’m surprised people are using Twitter to get it’s alerts. I don’t use Twitter, but I didn’t know that was a thing. NERV is the fastest-alerting app I’ve found on Android for quakes here. Good on them, though, for better use of their money and getting off that hellhole.
As others have mentioned, Twitter is huge in Japan. Almost no small businesses have websites; they market and show availability etc. through Insta, FB, and twitter
We have decided that if we were to spend over ¥700,000 per month that it would be better if this money could go to developing our NERV app and strengthening our ActivityPub servers instead of X’s API. Therefore, we are beginning to cut down on our posts on X.- musky boi making activityPub famous ?
This is bigger news than some folks may realise. Twitter is MASSIVE in Japan, their market penetration is huge there. Losing grip on Japan would be a major blow to the company.
Also probably a blow to Elon’s dream of becoming a cyberpunk corporate overlord, considering the genre’s bubble-inspired imagery.
It’s the second largest market after the US, but Elon cares so little about it that half the new things since they rebranded haven’t even been translated - my Twitter is in Japanese, and the new “repost” is in English, as are all the descriptions in settings.
It’s going to take a while, but they’re going to lose a lot of the Jp market at this rate.
NERV Mastodon: https://unnerv.jp/@UN_NERV
Thats a plus ! Thats prolly coz dev api costs ?
They’ve been on Mastodon for a while - since 2017. That likely made it easier for them to decide to switch over completely.
