Awhh!!! A Town completely Runs on Twitter

Twitter, a micro blogging site with more than 300 million users become a favorite means of communication and sharing information through a tweet. However, a tiny town in Spain is being lauded as one of the most technologically advanced defrayal in the world for using social media as its main technique for connecting citizens to their local government, and could become a model for how other cities and towns communicate through social media in future.

A town named Jun in Spain has taken Twitter a notch higher by using the platform for everything and it has caught the attention of the world. To show their gratitude to Twitter, the town has even arranged a monument in the form of an obelisk topped by Twitter’s bird logo on display in its main square.

Twitter becomes the main form of communication in Jun for the government with its 3,500 citizens embracing the platform to provide feedback on government services. Since September 2011, Jun has used the platform to spread everything from local news and developments, to job opportunities by the government. 

The Jun residents also uses the Twitter to lodge complaints about local services, report crimes, to book appointments with doctors, and generally become involved in the local community. Jun has almost everything painted with the logo of Twitter and a handle following suit and this includes the police cars. 

Person behind Twitter initiative in Jun:

Rodríguez Salas, mayor, has come up with an initiative since June 2005. But, it took a while to catch on and in 2011, Salas asked all the public servants in the city, no matter how junior or senior, to sign up for an account on Twitter and tweet about their daily jobs, from sanitation to council administration.

He also requested the citizens to do the same and then verify their accounts with their official national IDs. By 2013, the directness of the social network fostered so much goodwill with the people that today everyone uses the Twitter to discuss local issues and even to share news about their lives with their neighbors, such as details about a newborn baby. However, now some of the citizens in Jen love the Twitter model and see it as a sort of digital newspaper.

Well, Way to go Jun!