10 thoughts on “The Government’s A-Twitter Take 2: It’s Official”

  3. socialbutterfly4change

    @Jeffrey Thanks. I thought I’d clean up the old list, and I added a bunch as well from my list, the Twitter wiki and others I found while looking around. I went ahead and added the one you just listed.

    @Pair O’Dimes Thank you for the tips. I went ahead and updated the list. At one point, Gibbons’ profile was active. However, now the page doesn’t exist. Be wary that there is also a @FakeGibbons account. As we are finding, this is always an issue that fake accounts are created as impostures, a practive known as Twitter-jacking. Some victims to this have been Exxon Mobile, Borat, Stephen Colbert and a handful of others.

  4. Jeffrey Levy, EPA

    Thanks for editing. I always forget about the gov’t Twitter wiki – I just sent Ari a note.

    As for twitterjacking, that’s precisely why we grabbed @usepagov. @epa was already taken, not maliciously, by someone who does seem to post occasionally. In fact, I’ve found that “epa” is taken in a lot of places, so we’re taking “usepagov” as a general rule.

  5. Ari Herzog

    Thanks for crediting me and others, though I’m curious why you don’t point your readers to lists that already exist rather than creating another list.

  7. Nedra

    That’s a great list! Kudos to @ariherzog and you for putting it together. There are also some CDC-based twitterers as well (at least that I know about):
    @CDC_eHealth
    @eedgerton
    @hseitz

  8. SocialButterfly

    @Nedra @Chris Thank you, and I’m glad this list was helpful to you.

    @Ari I created the original list, I think, before the Twitter Government page was yet created. Due to the high traffic for that post and the traction it received, and people informing me of more government Twitter accounts, I wanted to offer a cleaner list here, which was excellent timing with the announcement that Congress can now utilize 3rd Party Web sites. Being able to visually show the robust number of government acounts, I think further establishes why this ruling is beneficial and helpful. Plus, I found a few new ones that were not yet added to the Government Twitter fan wiki list. And, even still, there are always more being created. I do encourage people to continue using the Government Twitter list. To ensure, that I now have a clean and updated list on SocialButterfly, I will also continue to update my list as much as I can.

    Thank you for all your work, as Government 2.0, I know, can be an uphill battle. =)

  9. Andrea R. Baker

    I thank Ari and Alexandria for compiling the continuously growing list of the US Gov on twitter.

    And for a shameless plug, I also maintain @thebeltway in which you can submit traffic incidents and events to be disseminated to beyond your follow list.

    — @immunity

Comments are closed.