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Now, Corporation too begins to tweet

Catching up: The Chennai Corporation’s first tweet on Thursday.

CHENNAI: You can now follow the Chennai Corporation on social networking site Twitter. The civic body has created an ID – chennaicorp – in an effort to communicate better with the online community.

Anybody, who is an ardent tweeter, can follow chennaicorp and get regular updates. If their mobile numbers are registered on Twitter, they can receive updates on the go.

One could also become a follower and reply to chennaicorp tweets and the civic body will respond to it, according to a senior official of the Corporation.

As on Thursday evening, the Chennai Corporation ID had two followers.

The first tweet that has been put up by the Corporation on Thursday is “Pay your tax using your mobile phone.”

A link to the civic body’s website ( http://www.chennaicorporation.gov.in) has also been posted on Twitter.

Likewise a widget will be created on the Corporation website that will link the user to Twitter.

The widget will have options for both replying to the tweets as well as contacting the civic body.

The official said that Twitter would also be used to pass on information about new schemes and facilities to the tweeting community.

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