OU is ranked No. 3 for the social networking websites Facebook and Twitter compared to all other universities in the nation.
Fan Page List, an independent company designed to enhance social networking for users, created the rankings.
“I think it’s great from a soundboard perspective,” university spokesman Chris Shilling said. “They’re beneficial to me because they let you know what’s going on on campus. They’re not just from the university standpoint, but they also retweet or update things that followers or other people have said.”
Of the top 20 schools, three other Big 12 schools were listed. Texas A&M University was ranked No. 1, Texas Tech University was ranked No. 6 and the University of Nebraska was ranked No. 14.
The Web Communications Department, created in 2007, maintains OU’s Facebook and Twitter pages. The group created the networking pages in May 2009.
They were created after the university found that there was “a need for centralized ownership of the OU home page and some web standards for the ou.edu domain,” said Amanda Toohey, Web Communications Content Management System Migrations manager.
Other current projects and collaborations in the works for the department include CQ5 content management system, a campus-wide calendar, a campus map, the OU home page, OU search, oZONE portal, video production and web guidelines, Toohey said.
The department hopes to make Facebook and Twitter become a part of the emergency communications response plan, if ever needed, Shilling said.
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