UK Gets Its First Official Twitterer-In-Residence
News Security
In an incidence that in fact serves as a testimony of the kind of influence Twitter has, the northern UK town of Darlington has become the first town in the country to have an official ‘Twitterer-in-Residence’.The Darlington Partnership has appointed an IT teacher, named Mike McTimoney, for the post of its own kind.The lecturer will be paid £140 annually and he will be responsible for making the most out of the microblogging phenomenon to inform people...
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