The government on Twitter
The Central Office of Information run a rather good website called the News Distribution Service, formerly the Government News Network. Below the fold are the RSS and Twitter feeds in three groups – aggregate, departmental and regional.
Unfortunately, no-one knows about it as the COI doesn’t do much to promote it despite being “the Government’s centre of excellence for marketing and communications”. It consists of news updates for all the big bits of government – departments, agencies and regions – that you could want. It’s a good way of keeping an eye on what they’re all up to an finding the occasional hidden gem of a press release. They’ve had RSS feeds for ages and now they’re on Twitter (thanks to yours truly).
xD.
Key & ministerial departments
RSS Twitter
Departmental
Cabinet Office
RSS Twitter
Department for Communities & Local Government
RSS Twitter
Ministry of Justice
RSS Twitter
Department for Culture, Media & Sport
RSS Twitter
Department for Children, Schools and Families
RSS Twitter
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
RSS Twitter
Department for Innovation, Universities & Skills
RSS Twitter
Department for International Development
RSS Twitter
Department for Transport
RSS Twitter
Department for Work & Pensions
RSS Twitter
Department of Health
RSS Twitter
Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform
RSS Twitter
Foreign & Commonwealth Office
RSS Twitter
Health & Safety Executive
RSS Twitter
HM Revenue & Customs
RSS Twitter
Ministry of Defence
RSS Twitter
Office of Fair Trading
RSS Twitter
Yorkshire & the Humber
RSS Twitter
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April 24th, 2009 at 5:29 pm
Thanks to everyone’s favourite blogging minister for the tweet-out.
April 24th, 2009 at 6:34 pm
Splendid work Dave. Must have taken a while to set these up.
Some Depts have human-run Twitter accounts as well. I’ve compiled a list and will blog it shortly. You may want to add those on your list.
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April 24th, 2009 at 7:58 pm
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April 25th, 2009 at 4:02 am
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April 26th, 2009 at 5:52 pm
Neil,
Thankyou – it did take a little while, but I found that Led Zep II helps.
Thanks for collating the other HMG Twitters – I’m going to see what else there is out there and try to collate it.
xD.
April 26th, 2009 at 9:36 pm
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April 27th, 2009 at 5:23 pm
The fact that MOJ uses Twitter is interesting given that a Magistrate has resigned over use of Twitter about court cases. See http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/shropshire/8018471.stm for details
April 27th, 2009 at 6:03 pm
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April 27th, 2009 at 9:48 pm
G,
I must point out that this is not an official feed. I have piped the various RSS feeds through TwitterFeed and the project does not have official sanction.
xD.