Chicago Transit Authority deactivates X social media accounts, previously generally known as Twitter, company confirms

CHICAGO (WLS) — The Chicago Transit Authority is not utilizing its major accounts the social media platform X.

The company confirmed to ABC7 Friday that two of their accounts are not lively on the positioning previously generally known as Twitter.

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The CTA and CTA service alerts X accounts now have disclaimers saying they’re not lively.

The CTA launched the next assertion Friday:

“After cautious consideration, CTA has determined to droop the usage of its normal info (@cta) and repair alerts (@ctaAlerts) accounts on Twitter/X.com, as this social media platform not gives the worth it as soon as did for us to successfully attain and talk with our riders. The @CTARPM account on X.com is unaffected and can proceed to offer undertaking info and updates by way of the rest of undertaking work. For real-time service info, CTA riders are inspired to enroll in our subscription alerts accessible through textual content/e mail, which could be personalized to offer info for most well-liked routes. For the occasional CTA riders, real-time service alerts will proceed to accessible at transitchicago.com.”

No additional details about the company’s determination to depart the social media web site was instantly accessible.