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Twitter ye not! Slow start for council
IT'S’s been a long time coming, but Westminster City Hall has finally chugged and sputtered into the bite-size world.
Never ones to be labeled luddites, the council opened its Twitter account in February, following in the feed-steps of Stephen Fry and Jonathan Ross, who helped popularise the social networking phenomenon.
But after just two updates in seven weeks (the Earth-shatteringly unimaginative “it has begun”, before going on to begin precisely nothing), the council’s “Twittercrats” have announced themselves in a blitz of postings.
It started inauspiciously: “Council funding the restoration of the lodge in Soho Square,” was posted to an audience of insomniacs at 3.41am on Monday morning. Eight minutes later, at 3.49am, constituents eager to find out exactly what the council was doing and thinking were asked a question: “What is your ‘sound of London’? email your idea to arts@westminster.gov.uk.”
Since then there have been a further four updates, informing its 25 followers (neighbouring Camden Council has 260), of traffic chaos in Parliament Square, the reopening of a bus route and a forthcoming Royal visit at Westminster Abbey.
The council’s library service has its own feed, which is updated every day, with information about upcoming talks, opening times and activities.
A council spokeswoman said Twitter was an important way of communicating with residents. |
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