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Walsall illuminates its citizens using Twitter

3. March 2011 – 11:02 by John Heaven (TuTech Innovation GmbH)

Photo by Techie Kev on Flickr.com

As reported in the Guardian, Walsall City Council is conducting a 24 hour experiment to publicise what it does. Starting at 6.00 UK time today, four Twitter streams will be pumping out updates from nuisance neighbour reports to pest control.

The Twitter accounts @walsall24_1 to @walsall24_6 have been reserved, although at the time of writing only two seem to be tweeting — presumably the rest have been reserved to prevent spoofers setting up bogus accounts (which, to my juvenile mind, seems a bit of a shame).

The experiment follows a similar campaign by Manchester Police, who tweeted over a 24 hour period recently.

For more information, see the Walsall City Council website: https://www.walsall.gov.uk/walsall24.htm.

PS: There’s a free candy floss and a goldfish if you understood the pun in the title.

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