When the Greater Manchester Police used Twitter to record every incident it deals with in a 24-hour period in October last year, we discussed (semi-seriously) how a similar approach could be used to publicise the realities of frontline social work.

Well, it looks like we might get a taster tonight.

Walsall Council has launched a 24-hour Twitter feed to highlight the day-to-day tasks the authority carries out. And the council has revealed that someone based at the social care out-of-hours office will be tweeting from 10pm to 6am. So as long as you don't mind a late night...

NB: Don't forget you can follow The Social Work Blog on Twitter, too.  

Read the complete post at http://www.communitycare.co.uk/blogs/social-work-blog/2011/03/live-twitter-updates-from-coun.html