[LINK] USDAFoodSafety is using Twitter.

[Crispin Harris]

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 8:03 AM, Stilgherrian <stil at stilgherrian.com> wrote:

> On 30/03/2009, at 10:36 AM, Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
> > The <http://www.usda.gov> seem to have chosen Twitter in preference
> > to providing
> > an RSS feed. Perhaps it says more about the Governance of ICT within
> > the
> > organisation - than suitability of Twitter. Maybe Twitter was
> > achievable by
> > bypassing the organisation. Certainly Youtube, Facebook and Myspace
> > have been
> > used as "free" options.
>
>
> The thing about using Twitter is that by adding your links via a tweet
> into the one messaging system, you get a whole raft of access methods
> -- web, Twitter clients, RSS, API calls into the Twitter database, SMS
> and then through third-party add-ons email etc etc.
>

>From a government services delivery perspective, twitter has another
advantage for organisations like the USDA.
And that is that management of an RSS environment can be cumbersome,
complex and fraught with vulnerabilities.

I have recently done security application/code/service audits for a number
of commercial web-site frameworks, and was particularly unimpressed with the
capabilities of the RSS engines in most of them.

The twitter.com environment also manages your historical data without any
input from you...

Crispin



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