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> -Everything- is negotiable at the end of the day.

Right, and saying "We aren't going to negotiate" is a negotiating tactic

Of course, and if you play that card you shouldn’t be surprised if your counterparty gets up from the table and walks away.

The counterparty might expect that you are honest when you say it is not negotiable and the reasonable course of action is to re-evaluate working with you as a business partner.

This burns the platform as you destroy features the userbase has come to depend on, see all of the companies and government entities that stopped offering anything (timetable updates, support, etc) on Twitter given the recent burning of API partners that Twitter followed through on.

Govs should not use Twitter to conduct business. Not everyone uses Twitter, and by your own example can disappear anytime.

Also I’m sure Reddit has already made deliberation and determined losing some friends is worth it.

Governments should meet their constituents where they are. There should always be a self-hosted channel by the government, but apart from that also publishing to common social media sites seems like a great service for people.

Twitter was used (and not a presidential alert) to warn people about an active mass shooting:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/rcmp-twitter-aler...

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