Tags are keywords. I put tags on every post to help you find the content you want. Tags may be people (Dominic Raab, say), organisations (The Howard League, PRT), themes (women offenders, homelessness) or specific items (heroin, racial disparity, ROTL). If you’re looking to research a particular issue, they can be invaluable.
Kim Evans, @lifeincustody, ex-police officer, lawyer and commissioning editor at The Justice Gap, on why she tweets. Tweets by @LifeInCustody Why I tweet. I joined twitter
My recent series on how to make the most of Twitter for workers in the criminal justice system created a decent amount of interest among
@ZoeStaffsGMPT is a well-known probation tweeter, admired for her commitment to her work and the dryness of her wit – she has written movingly about
I have long advocated the use of social media in general and Twitter in particular as a way for public services to raise awareness of what
@TheCustodySgt is a well-respected police tweeter and blogger. He is, of course, a Custody Sergeant and has 6,000 followers on Twitter. He also runs a well-established,
This last post in my series on how to get the most out of Twitter looks at assessing the impact of your tweets. Twitter has
As I have said before many times in this series, the best way to build a Twitter following is to tweet about interesting things in
There was an interesting article in Saturday’s Guardian which explored the issue of whether the police should get involved in cases of abuse on Twitter.
It’s raining tweets Once you’ve been on Twitter for a few months and are following a few hundred people (and, I hope, have a few
“If a tree falls in a forest and no-one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?” This famous philosophical conundrum can be applied
How long is a piece of string? How often you tweet is very much a matter for you and what you are trying to achieve
Re-tweeting is just a matter of hovering over a Tweet and clicking the re-tweet symbol. So why does it need a whole article for itself?
