Fed Issue #59 - $100,000 Twitter account for Canada's health minister

There is nothing I can say ..... "1.5 staff plus overtime for 50 tweets a month" $100,000 :scream: Even with CBC's excuse making and attempt to make it sound reasonable .... and NO it isn't a joke!

Health minister's Twitter account highlights cost of government tweeting
Labour-intensive project requires 1.5 staff plus overtime for 50 tweets a month
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/twit...eets-1.4493130
A Twitter account created for Canada's health minister last summer is costing taxpayers more than $100,000 a year in salaries and overtime for the bureaucrats who run it.

The account was launched Aug. 18 and so far has issued about 250 tweets, or about 50 a month in English on @CDNMinHealth and in French on @MinSanteCAN.

Those tweets require the equivalent of 1.5 employees dedicated to the task, with after-hours and weekend work costing about $6,500 in overtime so far.



You would think for them a post would be something like blah blah, for more go see and the URL.....
(ex. "Voting Liberal associated with brain damage,
follow link for more information.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/twit...eets-1.4493130")

And this is just one Minister. I wonder how many others also have this expense?