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    Govt. issues Ministerial guide to Twitter

    http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTR...e=uktechnology
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    The British government has published a guide to help ministers understand how to use the social networking site Twitter, with the aim of extending its news and corporate messages online.

    Twitter, which lets users post "Tweets" of up to 140 characters, has surged in popularity since its launch in 2006.

    With government departments such as the Foreign Office and Downing Street already tweeting, the 20-page guide details how ministers should provide an "informal" and "human" voice.
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    Re: Govt. issues Ministerial guide to Twitter

    Now if only house of commons debates could be carried out via Twitter as well..

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    Re: Govt. issues Ministerial guide to Twitter

    If they've got enough time to be using sodding twitter, they obviously aren't needed in Government. Time to cull off all the unecessary fraudsters or should I say ministers and get back to running the sodding country for the people rather than line their own pockets

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    Re: Govt. issues Ministerial guide to Twitter

    A bunch of old twits using twitter ... that's funny

    I can imagine their posts now..

    Hmm... what should I claim for expenses this week

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    Re: Govt. issues Ministerial guide to Twitter

    Quote Originally Posted by [GSV]Myocardial View Post
    If they've got enough time to be using sodding twitter, they obviously aren't needed in Government.
    How long does posting a twit take? (cue city link/RM joke)

    Seriously, is it a really long involved process which is going to take large amounts of time away from their jobs?

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    Re: Govt. issues Ministerial guide to Twitter

    The idea that they have to have a minimum number of tweets per day amuses me. Will eGovernment collapse if ministers don't tweet enough...?
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    Re: Govt. issues Ministerial guide to Twitter

    Quote Originally Posted by kalniel View Post
    How long does posting a twit take? (cue city link/RM joke)

    Seriously, is it a really long involved process which is going to take large amounts of time away from their jobs?
    Haven't got a bloomin clue how long it takes as it's not something I could gain any real value from and personally think that these type of sites are a waste of time.

    In the current climate where people are loosing their jobs, is it really appropriate that Ministers who have mostly been found out for being fraudsters, but against whom no-one has taken any action, should be wasting any of their time in utilising social networking sites?

    If there is honestly enough spare time in their day that they can all spend 5 minutes, ten times a day loging on to twitter and posting a new tweet, then that's 50 minutes times the 645 ministers, so that's 67 man days (537.5 hours per day) that they are collectively using and we are paying for them to tweet. Sacking 67 of them would save the tax payer £4,339,322 just in wages, more if you include their final salary pension, let alone the cost saving for not using the bandwidth, electricity, and the hourds of minions surrounding them.

    Then the rest of the ministers can get on with actually running our country rather than lining their own pockets and feeding the populace a pack of lies. Also we have to remeber that twitter is a commercial enterprise backed by venture capital and they are out to make money from the site and shares personally identifiable information on users with it's third parties.

    So we've got government employee's distributing god knows what to a foreign entity from within governments own walls, sounds like a really smart idea, when we have muppets leaving laptops and folders on trains, and Assistant Commisioners who mistakenly walk into Downing street with secret documents on view, what is going to get posted that shouldn't be???

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    Re: Govt. issues Ministerial guide to Twitter

    I give it three full weeks before one of them accidentally posts something confidential in a tweet.

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    Re: Govt. issues Ministerial guide to Twitter

    Gents, none of them will post on Twitter because the Government (aka) Security services are monitoring these sites........if you are a homicidal suicidal bomber, guess which sites you will avoid?.....Terrorists 1 v Government 0.

    Just how devoid of common sense is this Government......bunch of W*****s is the kindest description......Complete T*****s is probably more apt!!

    9/11........(9 out of eleven) presumably the current Government's "spin" on Employment figures in the UK......complete Bovine excretia........like most of their policies............never have I been so sad to say I am a "working class person"........these guys are more "working arse", and I would suggest that most of them have noses the colour of their leader's surname.........How cheap the souls of our past kindred are sold for!!......and all for personal greed, just how low has the human spirit sunk that we should come to this?

    Disgraceful!!!!!!

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    Re: Govt. issues Ministerial guide to Twitter

    Quote Originally Posted by Dingo View Post
    Gents, none of them will post on Twitter because the Government (aka) Security services are monitoring these sites........if you are a homicidal suicidal bomber, guess which sites you will avoid?.....Terrorists 1 v Government 0.

    Just how devoid of common sense is this Government......bunch of W*****s is the kindest description......Complete T*****s is probably more apt!!

    9/11........(9 out of eleven) presumably the current Government's "spin" on Employment figures in the UK......complete Bovine excretia........like most of their policies............never have I been so sad to say I am a "working class person"........these guys are more "working arse", and I would suggest that most of them have noses the colour of their leader's surname.........How cheap the souls of our past kindred are sold for!!......and all for personal greed, just how low has the human spirit sunk that we should come to this?

    Disgraceful!!!!!!
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    Re: Govt. issues Ministerial guide to Twitter

    Cor - never seen the <severe rant> and </severe rant> tags before!
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