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10 years on, and I still don't know what the point is, apart from Twitter making money.
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I'm interested that you include the word "respond" in your initial list. At least a couple of district councils outside London that I have tried communicating with have not responded at all. Are all the London ones really responsive and proactive, or really are they just pushing propaganda?
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Not sure the % of population column is representative. I live in @Royal_Greenwich but also follow neighbouring @LewishamCouncil as well as @cityoflondon as I work there and @CityWestminster as I work near there and spend time there. So that's four -- and I bet other people will follow two, three or four too.
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I agree with Burntweenie. A communication medium needs to reach a minimum of say 25% of its target audience in order to be effective and none of those listed does so. But I don't (know how to) use either Facebook or Twitter, and I don't feel significantly isolated as a result.
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I wonder if I'm in the minority in that I've had useful interactions with my local council on twitter.
So far they've fixed a stolen drain cover and cleared up flytipping that I've reported there. |
So Twitter is really a sort of cross between Facebook (let's tell you what's I did) and email (someone's dumped a mattress in the park)!
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I don’t follow Bromley but I do follow @BromleySnow. Worth a special mention perhaps.
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Can someone explain to me why one would use Twitter rather than just send an email? It's time consuming enough keeping up with emails, I don't want to have to look at another medium as well.
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Nice choice of post subject... it's also interesting how there doesn't seem to be that much correlation between the % population or follower count and my own findings, as proponents of certain boroughs would have you believe!
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Cornish cockney - yeah, pretty much. The science side of twitter is more like extended drinks at the bar after a conference. I've made a few very good contacts that way.
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I've never considered following my local council on Twitter, but thanks to this article, Barnet have just gained one more follower!
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i suspect part of the reason Hillingdon has so many followers is from people who *work* around Heathrow - so the percentage residents figure is probably a off (to a lesser extent than City of London)
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On the numbers of followers - I would hazard a guess that borough age demographics might hold the answer there.
Why did so many start during Feb-Apr 2009? Was it really the Stephen Fry lift thing? |
why one would use Twitter rather than just send an email
Because, just as councils have adopted Twitter, so they have abandoned email. Few now publish a general email address, most offer an online form instead (which may or may not generate a confirmation email for your records). Which is ironic: councils have abandoned email because people tend to forget essential details (such as the address where the bin hasn't been collected), meaning there has to be a follow-up dialogue, but a tweet is even more likely to lack the essential details. |
Why Feb-April 2009? Stephen Fry partly, but also US Airways Flight 1549 in Jan 2009. It crashed in New York Harbor and Twitter was the way I and millions of others found out about it; and also other people live-reported it on Twitter.
It was also the time 3G smartphones started to become popular. Twitter on a laptop is very different from Twitter using a phone that you carry around. The first 3G iPhone was launched in 2008 and by early 2009 millions were using them and other smartphones. |
Perhaps Bexley has far more older residents who don't use social media.
dg writes: About 12% of Bexley's residents are over 70 - a percentage beaten by Bromley and Havering. |
As a Hillingdon resident I've never been tempted to follow them on Twitter. I'm surprised having just looked to see it is far less smug and self-congratulatory than the bi-monthly magazine for residents, though I think I'd find getting repeats of the same Tweet every couple of days a bit irritating.
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