British government tells civil servants to tweet

cs2If Twitter is not exciting enough for you, things are about to change because the British Government wants Civil Servants to start tweeting. I can see it now- “We have just received our new filing cabinet- it is the AB001THY model that we really wanted. Here’s a picture of it ‘twitpic…’”

From cellular-news- “The government published guidelines Tuesday for its departments on using the microblogging service Twitter.

Yet in contrast to Twitter’s limit of 140 characters per message, the document runs 20 pages, or more than 5,000 words.

Neil Williams of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, who produced the guidelines, acknowledged that 20 pages was “a bit over the top,” but said he had been surprised by “just how much there is to say.”"

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One Response to British government tells civil servants to tweet

  1. Philippa says:

    Oh please let there be sir humphrey style tweets! “We cannot have an independent inquiry until we know what it will find out Minister”