Twiplomacy

After a very slow start, the US State Department is now the world’s most active practitioner of e-PD and the source of many best practices in digital diplomacy. It operates an official blog called DipNote, and actively services Twitter accounts in Arabic, Farsi, Russian, Spanish, Hindi, and French, as well as English. This new business line—‘Twiplomacy’ in the increasingly popular idiom—is growing fast, with more and more U.S. diplomatic missions and practitioners joining the fray.

2013, Daryl Copeland, “Digital Technology”, in Andrew F[enton] Cooper, Jorge Heine, Ramesh Thakur, editors, The Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy, Oxford, Oxon: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, part IV (Tools and Instruments), section 5 (Leadership and Best Practices), page 457

One study on the use of Twiplomacy found 264 Twitter accounts for government institutions in 125 countries but that only 30 heads of state personally used their Twitter accounts.

2015, Anne Aly, “The Media and International Relations”, in Emilian Kavalski, editor, Encounters with World Affairs: An Introduction to International Relations, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, published 2016, →ISBN, part III (Topics and Issues), page 355

This bachelor thesis documents the analysis of Russia's Twiplomacy in the Russia-Ukraine war concerning the framing approach. For this purpose, the posts of a selection of seven Russian government profiles on Twitter are examined over a period of five months. Examining Russian Twiplomacy provides a deeper understanding of its function.

2022, Varuna Mattis Venker, “Introduction”, in Russian Twiplomacy in the Russia-Ukraine War. Frames and Narratives as Strategic Communication, GRIN Verlag, →ISBN, page 2