It is his PERSONAL Twitter, although he does talk about work, along with Costco, vacations, and anything else he thinks is interesting. He has a Personal Twitter because he wants to, like millions of other people. He does not have a professional Twitter.
I don’t like Blizzard’s policies that prevent CMs from posting anything other than Patch Notes and updates on the forums, but that policy comes down from the top.
The only official Blizzard twitter accounts are the Diablo, Blizzard Entertainment, Blizzard CS etc ones.
All the other ones labeled PERSONAL, are just that, personal.
That is a recent ELON thing that either should be changed back, or will be. I thought it was already fixed.
They don’t pay them anything.
Reddit is run by the people who made the channels, not Blizzard. Blizz does not run them, moderate them, etc.
I agree with this and have said so, directly to them, for years. If they were not such rare unicorns, maybe people would not freak out when they showed up. There is no excuse for heaping abuse on people - so mods do need to keep things clean. But I just don’t agree with Blizzard’s tightly controlled limits on what CMs are allowed to do and their inability to post on the forums in a casual/chat way.
This is not on the CMs, this is policy above them and applies across games. Official responses are curated, reviewed, and “published”. That keeps the out of whatever legal risks they feel they might run into I guess? Not making promises about patches, features, etc?