A good use for Twitter

The last sentence of Wendy Lee’s story [“Twitter Under Musk Worries Media,” Nov. 8] mentions another important institutional user of Twitter that has received little to no attention in stories about changes at Twitter — government users.

I signed up for Twitter in 2010 at an emergency preparedness conference sponsored by local government recipients of FEMA’s Regional Catastrophic Preparedness Grant Program. Since then, the use of Twitter for public agency communications about wildfires, hurricanes, earthquakes and more has only grown.

The loss of Twitter as a reliable, essential public communication tool for emergency preparedness, response and recovery would be a disaster. Sally Richman

Los Angeles