IT Milk: entry

I thought it was a joke when Twitter notified me that StateCollegePD was following me. But this article in today’s Collegian proves that it is true.

I am skeptical about the State College PD using Twitter to reach out to the community because, as the article mentions, “It will appeal certainly more toward students and younger people, and people who are tech-savvy.” This service will probably only be used by tech-savvy because that is a realistic reflection of Twitter’s general user population. Would you expect an average resident to, all of a sudden, sign up for Twitter just to follow the police department’s updates? I expect StateCollegePD to become another ghost on Twitter after a couple months of stubborn effort.

On another note, it’s interesting that StateCollegePD managed to search out 68 local twitter users in State College, PA, including me. When I tried to do the same thing a while back when I first started using Twitter, I could only find about two dozen at most.