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The reason Amtrak's national and NE Twitter items are never realtime is what ? Not paying their membership dues to Musk ? Amtrak IT department and servers asleep at the switch ?
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I suspect a little from column A and a little from column B. The posts are identical to the notices on Amtrak.com, so they are probably using an API to post them to X/Twitter. But the API has been a mess since Musk took over.
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alanh said:
I suspect a little from column A and a little from column B. The posts are identical to the notices on Amtrak.com, so they are probably using an API to post them to X/Twitter. But the API has been a mess since Musk took over.
Musk probably added pay toilets to X HQ. You can't even view direct links with full comments after the switch if not logged in. No thanks.
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On this issue I really couldn’t care less if Amtrak dumps Twitter/X altogether. Musk in his quest to be a political influencer and mess with the apis has created this situation. Amtrak does need to find another way to get the alerts out there in an easy manner for customers but I’d have no issues if it wasn’t on this platform.
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They never should have been in bed with Twitter to start with. Develop their own system. Musk coming along should have been the trigger especially with 75% of the staff sent packing. But Amtrak is an outfit that won't even hire an IT summer intern to produce pdf public timetables.
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lordsigma said:
On this issue I really couldn’t care less if Amtrak dumps Twitter/X altogether. Musk in his quest to be a political influencer and mess with the apis has created this situation. Amtrak does need to find another way to get the alerts out there in an easy manner for customers but I’d have no issues if it wasn’t on this platform.
Meanwhile, Southern California's Metrolink alerts/status updates continue to appear on X.
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Meanwhile, Southern California's Metrolink alerts/status updates continue to appear on X.
I wonder if this will continue after Musk decides to impose a subscription charge for posting. Worse still if he imposes one for reading in order to keep those pesky little snooping bots at bay 
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I am puzzled. At one time on the Amtrak service notices and alerts there was an additional 2 boxes that had national alerts and Northeast alerts. boxes were to right of station advisories. They were identical to the twitter postings so used them instead until they disappeared from this link. What happened to those?
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I am puzzled. At one time on the Amtrak service notices and alerts there was an additional 2 boxes that had national alerts and Northeast alerts. boxes were to right of station advisories. They were identical to the twitter postings so used them instead until they disappeared from this link. What happened to those?
Those two tabs vanished about amonth ago.
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west point said:
I am puzzled. At one time on the Amtrak service notices and alerts there was an additional 2 boxes that had national alerts and Northeast alerts. boxes were to right of station advisories. They were identical to the twitter postings so used them instead until they disappeared from this link. What happened to those?
They were identical because they were links to the Twitter posts.
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They seem to be moving toward internal and proprietary means of sending the alerts that they were pushing through twitter before. If you have a reservation linked to your cell phone or Amtrak app they’re basically sending these out through push notifications through the Amtrak app and Text messages. Additionally the Amtrak alerts for any train can be seen by looking up train status - currently on the full website only. They don’t yet show up on train status on the app. Additionally there’s now a page where you can subscribe to Amtrak alerts for specific trains via email and text message when you don’t have a reservation.
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Not acceptable.
I don't want a subscription to get emails and texts, but want to see them only when I choose to.
Most transit rail systems have systemwide alerts navigable from their home page accessible by anyone and not by querying a specific train.
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Amtrak25 said:
Not acceptable.
I don't want a subscription to get emails and texts, but want to see them only when I choose to.
Most transit rail systems have systemwide alerts navigable from their home page accessible by anyone and not by querying a specific train.
While Amtrak should find a platform/method to do what you suggest / I have no issue with Amtrak moving away from a platform if the primary motivation of that platform is to score points with ideological do nothing political hacks. While I have respect for some of Mr. musk’s accomplishments I have little patience for his and others desire for recognition for some of the ideological purity do nothings
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Amtrak Status Maps - Delays
Amtrak Status Maps is now recording the delay information that Amtrak posts via the "Train Status" tab on its website. The delay information (if any) can be gotten by clicking on a train symbol on a map or by selecting the record for an archived train.
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I noticed this the other day and found it very useful. Kudos to whoever made that happen.
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Amtrak Status Maps - Delays
Amtrak Status Maps is now recording the delay information that Amtrak posts via the "Train Status" tab on its website. The delay information (if any) can be gotten by clicking on a train symbol on a map or by selecting the record for an archived train.
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Amtrak alerts and Amtrak Northeast are both active on twitter or X
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Bostontoallpoints said:
Amtrak alerts and Amtrak Northeast are both active on twitter or X
However they do not post alerts about every train anymore. 'Minor' delays will only be found using the train status page.
