Feds Chronicle First Day Back In Social Media

President Barack Obama signed legislation that ended the 16-day-old government shutdown, averted a default on US government debt and brought thousands of federal employees back to work. As those employees returned to the office, they fired up websites and social media accounts that had been dormant during the two week shutdown.

Many agencies furloughed between 50 and 90 percent of employees during the shutdown, including most or all of the communications staffers that run the government’s information and outreach services via social media. Many of those employees weren’t silent during the shutdown, but they were barred from tweeting or posting anything official on behalf of their agencies.