10 Government tweeters
By Nicole Kobie in Editorial
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The government is pushing Twitter as a cheap and easy way to communicate with the people of Britain — although, that might change if David Cameron’s Conservatives win power, as he thinks Twitter is for twats (I’m not swearing, he apparently didn’t mean it in the dirty word sense, just in the idiotic sense, apparently.)
Here’s ten Government Twitter feeds, in no particular order, despite the numbering.
1) @conservatives We’ll start with the Conservatives. Their leader may think it’s twattish behaviour, but his party does it. We’re not sure what that says about Cameron or his party…
2) @labourparty For balance, here’s the other guys. You’ll notice they have 1,684 followers, and don’t follow a single feed. Way to miss the point.
3) @thegreenparty Compare that to the Green Party, which have 4,211 followers and actually follow over 600 people, while @libdems manage to follow 735 to their 4,358 followers.
4) @ukparliament For everyone who wants to know exactly what’s happening in the Houses, but can’t be bothered to attend. Probably a lot of MPs and Lords following this one, then.
5) @downingstreet Don’t worry, it’s not actually run by the dull speaking PM himself - though limiting his speeches to 140 characters might not hurt his career. It’s run by his comms staff, who actually reply to questions.
6) @digitalbritain The department for business people who are running the Digital Britain project actually use the internet. Good for them. If you have a question - and who doesn’t? - about the network plans, they do actually respond.
7) @ofcom The best part of following Ofcom is getting the link to the weekly broadcast complaints - people sure do complain about some funny things.
8 ) @NHSChoices Find out when swine flu will kill us all, in real time!
9) @NDS_AllDepts Some rather altruistic man has gathered all the government’s news releases into one feed, so you can see everything they’re doing — or everything they’re telling us about, at least.
10) Tweetminster You’ll have noticed there’s no ‘@’ out in front of this one, and that’s because it’s something called a “website” — old school, I know. It’s a pretty brilliant one though, that gathers feeds from MPs. You can see if yours is on there, and gauge who’s being mentioned more on Twitter, David Cameron or Gordon Brown.
Any you think we should share, just chuck them in the comments. And don’t forget, you can follow IT PRO on Twitter, too!
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Loading ...Comment by - July 31, 2009 on 3:21 pm
@clarinette02 twittered us with these EU ones: EU_consumer @eurieland @devdays2009 @greenweek @ecifin @europasurveys @jurisprudence @eurlex
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