Downing Street is the latest organisation to pile in to Twitter. I've written before about how much time and energy needs to be invested in cultivating a critical mass of friends on Twitter before it really makers sense (something that's the biggest barrier the wider adoption, asides from explaining what it is in the first place...) but I have a couple of problems with using it like an RSS delivery tool.
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One problem is the anonymity of the handle "Downing Street". Downing Street is a set of building in central London. As Twitter is a tool for conversation, who is the real person speaking here? Whose words are these? That's the kind of thing I want to know when I'm listening to someone speak, via Twitter.
That said, there is a place for news delivery through it, I concede. It just needs to be in the right context.
