EMBC access to twitter varies from week to week.  It seems the flavour of the moment is to block twitter as an extreme site.  (I’m guessing that this category was chosen to stop those of us with level 1 filtering from getting on as well – since extreme sites seem always to be blocked).

Twitter, like other social media sites, is what you make of it.  If you want it to be a search engine for porn, it can be.  However search engines like Google are far more effective at this and will actually show you previews if you wish!

For those of you that have unfiltered https (as we can have with a simple tweak of the proxy settings), it is still accessible.  Of course it is also possible to add Twitter to your whitelist if you use it with pupils.

I’m still not sure we are giving the right messages to pupils about social networking sites – surely it is better to teach safe use than to make the issue someone else’s problem?