Is A Private Company in San Francisco Akin To A Crown Agency?

Personalized threats issued over online media are nothing new, and it's not my intent here to diminish their seriousness.

Obviously this jerk is incapable of appropriately articulating the nature of his frustration without resorting to verbal thuggery.

While many like me appreciate the willingness of some senior level politicians making themselves available online through popular social media platforms, since when did Twitter become an officially recognized extension of the Alberta legislature?

At the end of the day, a Tweet is simply a bundle of indexed zeroes and ones shuttled across the information superhighway, and ultimately processed, archived, and redistributed by a private company in San Francisco. Some politicians seem to regard these private entities as though they exist to serve their political aims.

So what's it going to be? Shall we begin to deem Tweets as official government correspondence? Do our politicians have so much faith in these private entities that they are willing to deem them an acceptably trustworthy representative of a crown agencies?

I'm no expert on such matters, so I can only hope someone more knowledgeable than myself can pick-up the torch, and begin to examine the legal relationship between Twitter, the Government of Canada, and Her Provinces. I'm guessing the little graphic depicting a check-mark inside a blue octagon beside some people's Twitter handle might carry legal assurances or implications, but at the end of the day, I don't believe there is any legally binding impetus for a company like Twitter to accurately regurgitate the words politicians submit to their platform. What I mean is, is that we all seem to take for granted Twitter's track record insofar. But what if one day you were to "Tweet" something like:

But it happens to appear to the outside world like this?