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Soldiers in U.S. are now allowed to use Twitter

June 11, 12:52 PMTwitter ExaminerMark Leevan
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  Soldiers based in U.S. can now Twitter

 

American soldiers are now allowed to use Twitter to comment, get followers, and share photos, just like the rest of the world.

The Army reversed a years old policy of blocking social media hotbeds on military networks, ordering tech managers to block access to Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and other similar social media sites.

 

"The Army has recently made access to several social media Web sites available from the Army home page within the .mil domain."

The order explaining why Twitter and other social media are now ok is explained this way

"the intent of senior Army leaders to leverage social media as a medium to allow soldiers to 'tell the Army story' and to facilitate the dissemination of strategic, unclassified information, the social media sites available from the Army homepage http://www.army.mil, will be made accessible from all campus area networks."

The policy reversal applies only to Army bases in the United States.

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