According to the report, the shift was made clear during internal meetings between agency managers.
Instead, the agency will be using X to communicate to the press and the public.
All of that, it seems, will disappear and be replaced by theSSA X feed.
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The agencys account currently has just over 138,000 followers.
In 2020, Muskdissolved Teslas press officeentirely and shifted the companys comms exclusively to what was then Twitter.
Shockingly, the company found itvery difficult to communicate withthe public and press.
For Tesla, the shift is vaguely justifiable, as the companys customers are likely a little tech-savvy.
That is distinctively not the case for Social Security, which primarily serves people of retirement age.
People can start receiving their full Social Security benefits at 67 years old.
So the audience for SSA updates is not on the platform that the agency will primarily use to communicate.
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