Twenty Page Document on Twitter Guidelines? …Really?

Leave it to the government, this time in the U.K., but they’re all buried in bureaucracy, to take 20 pages to encourage civil servants to tweet.

I totally understand this because I’m still owed money by a county government for work I did with them from July through September. Six weeks after I submitted invoices for the work from early July, I asked what was up.

They responded by saying they had to confirm details like whether my name and the name of the course I taught were spelled properly. Apparently the invoices go through about 5 different divisions to get processed. How do you spell waste? That’s our tax dollars working as inefficiently as ever.  Maybe by January I’ll get paid for the work I did for them in July.

Anyway, back to the U.K. and their explanation of why it takes 20 pages to describe how to use a 140 character micro-blogging tool.

There are some very bright, digitally enabled civil servants who unfortunately have to write these documents for their bosses, the mandarins, who still get their secretaries to print off their e-mails so they can read them.

Why are John McCain mentality drones still controlling our governments with antiquated nonsensical hierarchical wasteful ways in a world of new community-oriented systems?  Sooner than later the community will prevail over those in control that shouldn’t even be controlling the remote to a TV.

Read the full story about the U.K. Twitter document here