Twitter/X Ministerial Intelligence Tool

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The primary purpose of the contract is to allow the Department to consider social media posts made by candidates to be appointed to public appointments. The expectation of the Commissioner for Public Appointments is that Departments carry out due diligence on candidates to ensure they will meet the required standards in holding public office. Checks of publicly available social media (X/Twitter posts) is standard procedure. X/Twitter have recently introduced a charging policy to allow users to review volumes of Tweets/posts. The fee is paid monthly and there is no contractual commitment beyond each paid for month's service. Standard Terms and Conditions provided by the Supplier are used for this service.

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