Highland Council to get busy tweeting
Highland Council is taking part in a 24-hour Twitter event next week called ‘What we do’.
The move is designed to raise awareness about the range of services local authority provide across Scotland.
Most of Scotland’s 32 councils are taking part in the tweeting which starts at noon next Tuesday (September 27).
Highland Council currently has 1,060 Twitter followers and on a daily basis tweets all its news releases and urgent service delivery messages.
To keep up with tweets from the council on what is happening go to www.twitter.com/highlandcouncil
The council will tweet about services using the hashtag #whatwedo.
Council Budget Leader David Alston said: “'The What we do' event is an opportunity for the council to take part in a national initiative to experiment with what is rapidly becoming an important communication tool.
“Councils provide literally hundreds of services around the clock, 365 days a year, and this event will give service users a chance to see one day in the life of a council.
"We face challenging financial times but it’s important that people understand the kinds of services we provide even faced with those challenges.
"It’s very easy for people to focus only on the services they directly receive but there are so many more.
"Residents may also be surprised by the extent of our services and by the commitment which so many council employees demonstrate every working day.”
Twitter is a micro-blogging social network where users can post tweets of up to 140 characters.
These often contain links to other content such as website pages and photographs.
