Wireless Emergency Alerts are for emergencies. If you look at any government's twitter feed, the posts are either very much not emergencies, or in this post's context, too specific and numerous to use the system with. The government needs something besides a passive website and a highly active emergency alert system.

The article is about governments using twitter to send notifications. Lots - perhaps most - use twitter exclusively this way.

It's not, though it does get partial funding from the US government. I've been for a few weeks now to try and unpack the ramifications of public funded social media.

Blog post here: https://dynamorando.pages.dev/blog/the-public-web/

The most common refrain that I get whenever this topic comes up is "First Amendment" - meaning that public funded social media should not be in the business of moderation; though I often wonder how come NPR, PBS, BBC and so on don't run their own social media websites (based on your deciding flavor of ActivityPub instances.)

I believe the German and Dutch governments run their own Mastodon instances, I don't understand at the moment why other governments don't follow this path.