jackwilson (True Core Lover): Late December 2009 the Ukrainian non-profit organization Interenet-Ukraine launched a project aimed at monitoring 2010 Ukrainian presidential election based on Twitter.[133] *
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jackwilson (True Core Lover): In Britain, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills released a Twitter strategy written for the use of other departments. The strategy advised the departments on why Twitter was used by the Government and how they could tweet and promote their doing so effectively.[134] The ICAEW suggested that the document could also be useful to the private sector 0r as a general introduction to Twitter.[135] *
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jackwilson (True Core Lover): In the United States, a number of environment agencies and NGOs are on Twitter. At the local level, police and fire departments are beginning to use Twitter to keep the public informed of incidents.[136] Some of these departments, such as the Los Angeles Fire Department, issue up to 10 tweets per day. *
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jackwilson (True Core Lover): In October 2008, a draft U.S. Army intelligence report identified Twitter as a "potential terrorist tool". The report said it "is already used by some members to post and/or support extremist ideologies and perspectives."[137][138] *
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jackwilson (True Core Lover): David Saranga of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that on December 30, 2008, that Israel would be the first government to hold a worldwide press conference via Twitter to take questions from the public about the war against Hamas in Gaza.[139] *
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