The city of El Dorado is twittering.
The city began using Twitter, the latest Web site to communicate quickly and help update citizens on what is happening in the city.
“It’s been about three weeks,” said Derrick Kuhl, administrative intern. “We’ve got quite a few of the services that are going to pop up.”
Among the city departments that have a Twitter page are public works, administration, the animal shelter, the airport, engineering and parks and recreation.
“It’s all about another way that everyone can get informed about what the city is doing,” Kuhl said. “The whole idea about it is just to get the information out there as quickly as possible.”
It includes such information as what streets are closed for work, sidewalks under construction, the weather and what to do with limbs down from the recent storm.
“It’s pretty good information,” he said.
The city learned of the idea at the Kansas Association of City Managers Conference, where a presentation on it was given.
“They talked about the importance of blogs, Twitter, Facebook, Myspace,” Kuhl said.
It was explained how Johnson County is currently using Twitter.
“That kind of spurred us to get going on it,” he said.
People do need to sign up for a user name and password to look at the pages. The pages can be found at twitter.com.
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