The 2011 survey sought also to capture local government adoption of more recent innovations in e-government. Here we looked into local government use of social media (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube). We found amazing adoption rates of these technologies (two-thirds of local governments had adopted at least one social medium, of which nearly all had adopted Facebook), although it is too early to assess the impacts of this adoption. Clearly, more research into the use of these technologies by local governments will be needed to understand their ramifi cations.