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CLCLCL’s Twitter Presence

The twitter account (@CLCLCL_Europe) is one of the central outreach means by which the Project disseminates its work. Every weekday morning one of our level one definitions is tweeted with an accompanying photo and a link to the resource, to ensure the wider use of the encyclopedia. Since starting this in November 2018, the account’s following has risen from just over 100 to well over 700 followers, who see our daily definitions, with retweets meaning that some of these definitions have reached over 3,000 people.

Tweeting these definitions has also provided a forum for discussion, with subtle amendments being made to some of the definitions through the helpful suggestions of our followers. In addition to this, we also tweet the occasional ‘research enquiry’, asking the wider twitter community research questions which we are interested in or posing polls for them to answer. These have proved most popular – particularly our most recent one on examples of medieval female judges – with the enquiry being seen by 3,300 people, soliciting a range of interesting responses and examples.

Twitter was also deployed to advertise our upcoming workshop in May on ‘Law in Transmission’, with the call for papers being seen by over 7,500 people. Finally, twitter has been used to ensure the wider reception of our online text and inform others of our conference activity or achievements.