You’ll be surprised to see who’s on Twitter. Besides the obvious @ladygaga and @kathygriffin, I’m surprised quite a few government officials have signed up on Twitter.
- Queen Elizabeth II of Canada and her household @BritishMonarchy (latest: In celebration of the special exhibition at Buckingham Palace, buy gifts online linked to The Queen’s diary of events http://bit.ly/akInn2)
- Ontario Court of Appeal: unofficial tweet by @slaw_dot_ca and @fodden through RSS feeds from CanLII @cancourtsONCA (latest: Safai v. Bruce N. Huntley Contracting Limited, 2010 ONCA 545 [CanLII]: owner of the property — limitation period —…http://bit.ly/btDJT1)
- Ontario Ombudsman Andre Marin tweets personally @Ont_ombudsman (latest: Q: How well were secret meetings documented? Marin: Not well. Hard to get info. At least 8 LHINs allowed similar meetings.)
- Toronto mayor David Miller @mayormiller (latest: @draymaker many kms of bike lanes, off road paths going in this year in Toronto. Take the time to look it up)
- Statistics Canada @StatCan_eng (latest: Published today: New Housing Price Index [June 2010] http://bit.ly/9wo7iy)
- Bank of Canada @bankofcanada (latest: Statement by Governor Mark Carney following the release of the Monetary Policy Report http://bit.ly/b2Lbab)
- Ontario Provincial Police @OPP_News (latest: OPP investigation of irregular financial transactions update. http://www.opp.ca/ecms/index.php?id=405&nid=294)
- Toronto Transit Commission @TTCnotices (latest: A collision EB Lawrence Ave at Weston Rd is causing a 10min delay to the 52 Lawrence W, 58 Malton and the 79 Scarlett Rd bus routes)
Keep in mind that Twitter does allow parody tweets. For example, if you search “Queen Elizabeth II,” you will end up with quite a few results. The safest bet would be to follow those that have been verified by Twitter as the real owner of the account. If a verified account is not available, you’d better exercise your judgment so you don’t follow the wrong tweet.
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