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   Bealtaine Healy-Rae-Nua (tarbh@mastodon.ie)'s status on Monday, 04-Sep-2023 19:23:30 JST Bealtaine Healy-Rae-Nua

   • BBC News (UK)

   It's great to see @BBCNewsUK and other BBC sites on mastodon, but I'm not sure whoever set up the automated posts actually gets it. The post content is the news headline (as you'd expect), a link to the relevant article on the BBC site (also as you'd expect) and "Original tweet" with a link to... well, the tweet they're presumably feeding off.

   I think you're good leaving that bit out, folks!

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     Padraig Fahy 🌈 (padraig@mastodon.ie)'s status on Monday, 04-Sep-2023 19:23:28 JST Padraig Fahy 🌈

     in reply to

     • BBC News (UK)
     • BBC Research & Development
     • BBC Radio 5 Live

     @Tarbh @BBCNewsUK I believe that is an unofficial account (as there are many BBC News cross posting accounts)

     They have their own official Mastodon server (social.bbc) and they have some accounts active on it like @BBC5Live and @BBCRD

     It would be cool to see the news fed into it.

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     Bealtaine Healy-Rae-Nua (tarbh@mastodon.ie)'s status on Monday, 04-Sep-2023 19:47:10 JST Bealtaine Healy-Rae-Nua

     in reply to

     • Padraig Fahy 🌈
     • BBC News (UK)
     • BBC Research & Development
     • BBC Radio 5 Live

     @padraig @BBCNewsUK @BBC5Live @BBCRD Ah, thanks! I'll follow a few later!

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     Infrapink (he/his/him) (infrapink@mastodon.ie)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Sep-2023 02:45:01 JST Infrapink (he/his/him)

     in reply to

     • Padraig Fahy 🌈
     • BBC News (UK)
     • BBC Research & Development
     • BBC Radio 5 Live

     @padraig @Tarbh @BBCNewsUK @BBC5Live @BBCRD Yup, it's an unofficial mirror of the official Twitter account, rather than something that works of the BBC's #RSS feeds.