The CllrTweeps website has been on the go for a fair old while (in Internet terms) now and was the first site of its type of councillors, councils and their residents.  However, even when it was set up we were aware that the site would not last forever.  This was not some metaphysical angst about [...]

Welcome to the new CllrTweeps website.
Since our launch in early February, we‘ve been listening to feedback, and working our how best to display the information we’ve been collecting.  When we first started, we had just a handful of councillors, now we have over 200.  While this is not a huge number when you consider that [...]

If you are a councillor and want to be listed on here then we only need a few details:

Your name.
Your Twitter name.
Your council.

You can let us know by commenting on this post, or emailing site@cllrtweeps.com.
If you haven’t already got a Twitter account, you can get one (for free) by signing up at http://twitter.com.
We perform a [...]

The next version of the site is already in development, and will provide many more ways of finding tweeting councillors.
We don’t want to overcomplicate matters and move too far beyond the central vision of being a single directory of the UK’s councillors, or do we?  This is very much a community site, so let us [...]

A few people have queried what we are doing here. It’s actually quite simple, we are trying to compile the definitive list of UK councillors on Twitter, no more, no less.
What people do with the information we provide is up to them.  We rather hope it will help councillors and their communities in engaging, [...]