Justice Dept. Gets a Little Hipper with Facebook and Twitter and Slick Website – Tickle the Wire.com
It used to be — not all that long ago — that only teens and the terminally hip used the social networks like Facebook and Twitter.
No more. The U.S. Justice Department, not particularly known for being terminally hip, is getting into the act.
Reporter Joe Palazzolo of the website Main Justice reports that the Justice Department has not only created a slick looking website but “in less than a month, the Justice Department has gained about 92,000 followers on the microblogging site Twitter, 1,400 Facebook fans, and 500 MySpace friends. The department was the fifth federal agency to join Twitter.”
“Had we done something like this under Attorney General Ashcroft and President Bush, the howls would be deafening,” Mark Corallo, who served as spokesman for Attorney General John Ashcroft and now works at his consulting firm, The Ashcroft Group told Main Justice. But as Corallo scanned the new site, he added: “This is truly professional. This is really well done.”
