DBCDE Twitter account

You can follow, and engage with, the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy (DBCDE) on Twitter. Our Twitter handle is @DBCDEgov.

How we manage the account

All members of the Department are invited and encouraged to suggest tweets. A small team of people from across different sections of the Department actively manages the account.

We post tweets and retweets with a view to sharing information and promoting engagement. This includes providing information about media releases, job postings, conferences and other activity involving the Department, as well as Australian Government information (including tweets from other agencies) and general information relevant to the broadband, communications and digital economy portfolio. By linking to content, retweeting or acknowledging the source of a tweet, we are not endorsing that content or source, we are simply providing information we believe may be of interest to people interested in matters relating to this portfolio and/or attributing a source.

If you send @DBCDEgov a message or question, either publicly or via direct message, the team managing the Twitter account will liaise with the people in the Department most likely to know the answer to your question and endeavour to respond by the next business day. Please note that, as a general rule, we will monitor the channel during business hours only.

Contacting us via our Twitter account is not the best way to send through a formal enquiry or comment. If you have a formal request, comment or enquiry, please consider contacting us as usual via the contacts page.

If you have feedback for other government agencies, including those who we tweet about or retweet, you should send your feedback to them directly. We will not routinely contact other agencies to share any comments about them that you send to us.

Our follow policy

We are interested in reading what you have to tweet. Our policy is to follow anyone who follows us, unless they have protected their tweets, or unless a review of an account suggests that it is a spam account or otherwise primarily directed towards marketing.

Your privacy

Be aware that Twitter is a public space on the internet and, unless your mark your tweets private or send direct messages, all interaction is publicly viewable and searchable over time. To learn more about keeping your Twitter channel private, read this help page provided by Twitter: http://twitter.zendesk.com/forums/10711/entries/14016