Comments on: Plethora of Social Media Tools, but not Twitter, Launch with Apps.Gov

By: GovTwit Week in Review 9/14 – 9/20 | GovTwit

GovTwit Week in Review 9/14 – 9/20 | GovTwit — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 19:16:00 +0000

[...] said it would follow in 2010 with a government-centric cloud of its own. Interestingly enough, Twitter was absent from the first cut of [...]

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Our Government 2.0 Predictions for 2010 | Social Government — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:27:15 +0000

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By: Mixed Signals on Evolution of Social Media « Public Relations Rogue

Mixed Signals on Evolution of Social Media « Public Relations Rogue — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:46:44 +0000

[...] U.S. Government launched a new internal site making a range of social media tools and applications available for download and use. The online [...]

By: GovTwit Week in Review 9/14 – 9/20 « GovTwit

GovTwit Week in Review 9/14 – 9/20 « GovTwit — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:55:24 +0000

[...] said it would follow in 2010 with a government-centric cloud of its own. Interestingly enough, Twitter was absent from the first cut of [...]

By: Allison

Allison — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:47:16 +0000

Twitter is widely used in government, and the reason it likely wasn’t included on apps.gov is because GSA found that there was no problem with the Terms of Service for government, so no new terms were negotiated. This system is just a formal way of routing requests to the departmental points of contact who hold the Terms of Service for the department. While internal approvals for using Twitter would still be required (I would hope), I assume they didn’t include it on apps.gov because that TOS piece is absent.