03-08-2023, 12:47 PM
(01-08-2023, 10:29 AM)Keith Wrote: I guess they've seen how drastically Twitter can change within a few weeks. There's also the changes made to verified status in recent months, which means a lot of their accounts may no longer have a blue/yellow tick unless they pay for it. From what I understand of how their Mastodon server is configured it means that only their own chosen accounts can use 'social.bbc', which instantly makes it easy to identify genuine accounts.On screen captions can easily be edited. It'd be trickier if a presenter actually said "follow us on Twitter".
As a side note the renaming of Twitter to X is potentially going to date some repeats, where programmes (e.g. Bargain Hunt) specifically use an onscreen caption promoting their twitter account. It's perhaps one advantage of programmes that opt to use a hashtag instead, which I guess is possibly also preferred when a programmes is redistributed to other channels/countries.