Blogposts tagged 'Twitter'

Danger! We're opening our Twitter account to lots of people

Posted by jamess - 15 May 2012 at 4:10pm - 10 Comments

by. Credit: Greenpeace

Willie our oceans campaigner is keen to tweet pictures of his hippie Lego...

We're trying an experiment.

Over the next six weeks we're going to be giving people across the Greenpeace UK office the ability to tweet directly on our main account. Yes, the Greenpeace UK webteam is giving up control so you get unfiltered, unchecked content from all four, idiosyncratic corners of this wonderful organisation. Which means any number of people can now instantly push out their thoughts to our 36,000+ Twitter followers. What could possibly go wrong?

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UK plans to scupper drilling moratorium exposed on Twitter

Posted by jamess - 24 September 2010 at 10:53am - 2 Comments

Ok Twitter friends, it’s time to take action.

While Timo and Naz are out there hanging off Chevron's rig in the pod, stopping deepwater drilling, our politicians are out in Norway wrecking regional plans for a moratorium.

Yesterday we put out a message on Twitter, as soon as we heard from our German colleagues what was happening at the OSPAR conference:

"Twitter

Next thing that happens is Richard Benyon, the Under-Secretary for the Environment tweeted this:

They accosted you Mr Benyon because you're scuppering an important initiative to stop deepwater drilling!

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Breaking: Images from the standoff at the site of Arctic deepwater drilling

Posted by tracy - 23 August 2010 at 3:26pm - 2 Comments

Lisa is onboard the Esperanza and says internet has been on and off, but she has managed to get through a few images of the rig and Danish warship that is guarding it. You’ll be able to follow her live updates below, when she can get them out.