Tweets Calling for Obama’s Assassination Prompt Secret Service Investigation
Two Twitter users are learning the hard way that threats against the President of the United States are taken very seriously, even when they’re just a tweet. Following last night’s passage of the healthcare reform bill, @THHEE_JAY and @Solly_Forrel expressed their frustration with the President by publishing tweets reading “ASSASSINATION! America, we survived the Assassinations […]
Are there any examples of a government department successfully using social media?
By social media, I mean things like Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Youtube, blogs, and Wikipedia. Any country or level of government is okay. I’m doing a presentation and need some examples. Thanks. Obama is an interesting example, but I’m thinking more along the lines of a department, rather than a specific individual or politician. The president […]