Looks like the floodgates are opening for “official” Government of Canada Twitter presences.
New ones I’ve spotted in the last week:
- @CanadaIntl – The account for the 2010 G8 Summit in Muskoka. Currently inactive, but it’s being promoted on the G8 website.
- Environment Canada – pursuing an interesting strategy as the main Twitter account being promoted from the Department’s website would appear to be the the Minister’s personal account.
- @eyesabroad – just launched (yesterday!) from the www.international.gc.ca web team. Something cool: a clear and concise Twitter policy for interested followers outlining how the account will be managed.
- @HealthCanada – this account has actually been live for a while now, and they’re up to almost 800 followers. Now being promoted on www.hc-sc.gc.ca’s home page too. Dunno why I didn’t notice it before.
- Natural Resources Canada – the always-innovative NRCan is pursuing Twitter presences on a number of fronts, including a recruiting account, as well as accounts aimed at their own employees – such as @NRCan Library and @NR_RNbulletin. Score one for transparency!
This is by no means a comprehensive list. I’m sure there’s other recently launched GoC accounts on Twitter that I’ve not spotted yet. Tell me about them in the comments!
What's a spaghetti test?
Therer are also :
http://twitter.com/workingincanada
http://twitter.com/connect2canada
thanks for the update. Have you seen this before?
http://twitter.com/CanadaGovNews
It popped up in my Google Alert.
Thanks Steve & Greg
I don’t actually think that @CanadaGovNews is an “official” GoC twitter account. But I’ve been known to be wrong before :+)
[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Dave Briggs, Peter Smith, Martha W Weaver, Louis Cossette, Richard Hamilton and others. Richard Hamilton said: RT @spaghetti_p: Government of Canada on Twitter: Floodgates Open: http://wp.me/paqt7-lM [...]
No, it is not an official source, but worth being aware of it all the same, given that it has 658 followers and purports to tweet:
“Consolidated Canadian Government News, directly from the Agencies, without slant, spin or hype.”
Looks like it just grabs everything from news.gc.ca
ie:
[Nat News] Government of Canada Updates Canadians on Progress Made Towards Canada’s Economic Recovery: OTTAWA, Feb… http://bit.ly/9MRyYm
11:45 AM Feb 4th from twitterfeed
Agreed! Always like it when interested citizens pitch in to help us out :+)
Hi – I’m a little late to comment on this post – but the RCMP is on twitter also…
@rcmpgrcpolice / @grcrcmppolice
Thought it should be added to your list!
Hi Peter.
A quick thanks for this post. You helped me finish up a presentation today so I owe you one!
Hi Jennifer – & there’s more that I know of now, as this list is nearly 3 months old. I’ve been trying to keep a list in Twitter itself – http://twitter.com/pcwsmith/goc/members