There are various lists of UK councils which use Twitter floating around. I assume that some are compiled manually and others by screen scrapers.
Given that the rel=”alternate” attribute of (X)HTML’s <link> element is already semantically broken by the widely-adopted RSS autodiscovery spec, is there any good reason why we can’t adopt something like the code below and allow the relationship between a site and a Twitter account (or indeed, any third party site controlled by the owner) to be expressed cleanly?
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://twitter.com/adrianshort" title="Twitter: adrianshort" />
(For HTML newbies, this goes in the <head> section of your web page.)
View source on this page and you’ll see it “in the wild” already.
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