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1. Twitter has existed since 2006, I'm sure they are very well aware of governments utilizing their platform since then.

2. How do you expect governments to provide information? Should they:

a. Distribute information via the most widely consumed forms of media

b. Create individual platforms so that people have to check a unique website to stay upddated on each government ministry

3. Twitter may be a "novelty microblog website" in a global sense, but in North America calling it that is absurd.