Broward County Public Schools has initiated a Twitter account to keep students, parents and the public updated with the latest news and information about the nation’s sixth-largest public school system. The District’s free Twitter account provides a variety of information, including the latest press releases, notifications, changes in School Board schedules, emergency updates and more.
Through Twitter, the popular social networking and messaging service, Broward County Public Schools posts updates, called "tweets." Twitter users who choose to follow the District through the account called "browardschools" will get these updates or “tweets” on their Twitter home page. Users can also receive tweets through a variety of methods, including text messaging, RSS aggregators and third-party applications. This provides the District an additional method to deliver information expediently and directly to students, parents and the community.
Twitter supplements the District’s current communications vehicles, which include Parent Link phone messages, E-mails, the District’s Web site , BECON-TV and the parent newsletter.
For more information or to sign up for Broward County Public Schools on Twitter, visit (www.twitter.com/browardschools) or the District’s Web site (www.browardschools.com) and click on the Twitter link on the home page.