There was a flurry of activity on the UK & Ireland E-Democracy mailing list today with a Dave Briggs flagging a number of local authorities embracing Twitter.
Dave’s list includes
It’s interesting to see how each authority is using Twitter. St Helens is using it to announce news stories; Southend seems to have used it to update the count during the local elections; Stratford-on-Avon are using it in a fully conversational way while Barnet seem to have registered their profile and not much else.
Another and interesting recent addition to Twitter is UK Parliament who seems to be someone behind the scenes at the Houses of Parliament website. This will be really interesting to follow as the HoP website provides a wealth of information from the day’s activities in the house and having someone interpreting some of the day’s parliamentary news is a great idea.
However, my main bugbear is that there isn’t RSS on the HoP website. Given the amount, variety of info and frequency of updates is the perfect site to use RSS. That’ll be my first question via Twitter!
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