Years ago, London ruled one-fourth of the world’s population. Now? Training its civil servants how to tweet “issues of relevance or upcoming events.”
The UK’s Cabinet Office original story titlehas published a 20-page “how-to” of sorts, the goal of which is to encourage civil servants to learn and use the micro-blogging service that, one day, will bring clean drinking water to the more than 1 billion people in the world who lack it. (Am I mistaken? Why else is Twitter so popular then?)
Twitter maintenance—tweeting, replying to tweets, etc—would take less than one hour per day. So it’s not like the civil servants’ junior staffs would be preoccupied with constantly checking the Web site.
Says a Cabinet Office spokesman:
With more and more citizens using the internet it’s important that, as part of its communications approach, the government develops its capability to use digital channels effectively and that includes social media tools such as Twitter.
It’s sort of funny. Just last week, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said that Twitter was essentially banned in the White House. (A claim that was later pared down some.) The Administration doesn’t want people tweeting and re-tweeting on the job.
(The White House’s Twitter account is maintained by New Media, which is located in the Eisenhower Executive Building. You know, in case you didn’t reach your “useless information” quota for the day.)
I don’t think “tweeting” is the way to handle issues of relevance, but its better than doing nothing, I suppose.
Even though your point is valid, tweeting can have a big impact, just take the #iranelections as an example. Many people who couldn’t actively do something created, together on twitter and facebook a huge impact on the world, which rippled into international governamental pressure.
So, tweetting can make a differece.
This is just another way of them trying to control everything their population does.
I’m so glad I changed my mind about moving to that prison.
being british, i think my heart just broke a little bit.
Years ago, London ruled one-fourth of the world’s population. Now?
Now they rule a lot more than one-fourth. The House of Rothschild, specifically Major Amschel Rothschild, was the financier of the Crown for the last 2 centuries up to the present time.
The House controls the Bank of England, the Fed, and the IBS, which in turn controls over three-fourths of the worlds population.
If only twitter could set this information free.
They have to keep themselves busy somehow, otherwise we’ll end up taking over again.
BTW, it’s a “quarter”, not a “fourth”, you uncouth yank!
I think you guys might have meant to put the actual “original story title” into this article, no actually put the words “original story title” and the anchor text? In case you need it, it was “Government advice urges tweeting” ;)