Thursday, April 01, 2010

Growth of Twitter in Australian governments - 155 accounts

I've conducted a quick review of Australian government Twitter accounts this morning, national, state and local, drawing on lists that others and I have compiled.

With a margin for error (some may have been missed or not be official accounts), I've found that there are about 155 Australian government Twitter accounts registered, 26 Federal, 79 State and 50 Local.

UPDATE: I've added new accounts flagged by commenters, taking the total to 196 Twitter accounts from Australian governments.

Note that I've not screened these accounts for whether they are still live, or how actively they Tweet.

If you want to subscribe to some of these lists please see:
There's also a Victorian government Twitter list.

I've provided a full list of the accounts I looked at online in Google docs as a spreadsheet, open for anyone to view, download and modify at: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Ap1exl80wB8OdHNKVmQ5RVlvQWpibDAxNHkzcU1nV2c&hl=en

There's also a full list below.

National
ACT

NSW State
NT State
QLD State
SA State

TAS State
VIC State
WA State
NSW Local
QLD Local
SA Local
VIC Local
WA Local
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10 comments:

  1. Ian StewartApril 1, 2010 at 9:27 AM

    Hi Craig,

    There are a couple more in Vic to add, some can be found via the Vic Online list http://www.vic.gov.au/social-media/twitter.html

    cheers,
    Ian

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  2. eGov Resource Centre TwitterApril 1, 2010 at 10:13 AM

    Hi Craig - you missed out the eGov Resource Centre http://twitter.com/egovrc for Vic State Government !

    Cheryl

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  3. ValeriApril 1, 2010 at 10:20 AM

    There are a few in the ACT Gov but they are not very active like other states, they seem to be using facebook more than other social media sites and apps.

    http://twitter.com/ACTGov - not active http://twitter.com/librariesact - active
    http://twitter.com/ACTEmergencyInf - only for major emergencies like bushfires, I think.

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  4. UnknownApril 1, 2010 at 1:37 PM

    Craig: Nice to see you referred to the lists we've been maintaining. We're planning to keep these up to date as an easy reference point for anyone wanting to follow Australian Govt agencies on Twitter.

    I'll be updating our lists later today with those accounts noted by Cheryl, Valeri and others. If there's any missing from there, anyone can send us a twitter reply and we'll make sure any missing accounts are added.

    -MH

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  5. Craig ThomlerApril 2, 2010 at 9:26 AM

    Thanks MH,

    Do you mind keeping the Google sheet updated as well - it allows others to quickly build lists of the groups they are interested in. It took ages to extract the info out of the Twitter lists!

    Valeri, glad to see there are ACT ones - am adding them.

    Cheryl - how could I miss you! - adding

    Ian - thanks! and the benefit of that list is that I know they are official (a few on the FPC list weren't and I dropped them off..but there are others it's hard to know about).

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  6. Craig ThomlerApril 2, 2010 at 10:51 AM

    Ian,

    Note there are a few Vic accounts missing from the Vic gov site...

    http://twitter.com/acmionline
    http://twitter.com/DesignVictoria
    http://twitter.com/egsc
    http://twitter.com/wodongacouncil

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  7. KerryApril 6, 2010 at 10:27 AM

    The ACTGov and ACTGovernment accounts are bogus - we've been trying to get them removed for months. How can you tell they're bogus? The coat of arms image is reversed, that's how.

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  8. Paul HagonApril 6, 2010 at 4:35 PM

    Craig: another National one to add to the list - National Library of Australia
    http://twitter.com/nlagovau

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  9. Craig ThomlerApril 14, 2010 at 8:21 AM

    Paul - done!

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  10. UnknownJune 23, 2010 at 4:53 PM

    ACCC Product Safety has a twitter account:
    http://twitter.com/ProductSafetyAU

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