Accessing Twitter through the HICS network

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The Twitter website has been accessible throughout the HICS network for a few years now. We always try to make sure that the web filtering policies reflect a consensus view of the schools that use them and permitting access to this was authorised by The ICT in Schools Partnership Working Group. Lots of schools use Twitter on their websites and as a means of communicating with parents. Some schools have also started to use it for various curriculum projects. That said, we do occasionally receive queries from schools asking for access to this website to be blocked. There are work arounds to do this, but as the question does get asked fairly frequently, we have arranged a brand new filtering policy to deal with this. WF4 has been created and will be in place alongside WF1, WF2 and WF3. The only difference between WF3 and WF4 is that Twitter is blocked on WF4. So if you currently use the WF3 filtering policy but you’d like access to Twitter to be blocked, you may want to look into deploying this filtering level. If you have any queries relating to this, please get in touch with the SITSS Connectivity Service Desk:[email protected]