Social Networking Journal

Twitter Picked By Broward County For Communications

Twitter has been a way for many people to be entertained, but now some organizations are choosing the service to facilitate communications. Broward County announced they’ll send “Tweets” that will keep parents and students up to date about the latest developments.

“Through Twitter, the popular social networking and messaging service, Broward County Public Schools posts updates, called “tweets.” Twitter users who choose to follow the District through the account called “browardschools” will get these updates or “tweets” on their Twitter home page. Users can also receive tweets through a variety of methods, including text messaging, RSS aggregators and third-party applications. This provides the District an additional method to deliver information expediently and directly to students, parents and the community,” the school district said in an annoucement.

The idea is simple. Interested students or teachers with Twitter accounts can sign up to “Follow” the updates from the school system.

Undoubtedly more and more organizations will follow suit because Twitter is an easy site to use, and many people already have accounts there.

You can easily check out Broward County’s Twitter implementation.