Welcome to Jun, the town that ditched bureaucracy to run on Twitter

Residents of the Spanish town use Twitter for everything from reporting crimes to booking doctor's appointments. Is this the future of local government?

"The only things that the United States has given to the world are skyscrapers, jazz, and cocktails," once wrote Federico Garcia Lorca. "And in Cuba, in our America, they make much better cocktails."

The residents of Lorca's hometown of Granada may now dare to add Twitter to that list. The California-based social network has become something of a specialism for the Spanish city, which now proudly promotes Jun, a local town pioneering Twitter as a way of administering its public services, and hosts an annual conference dedicated to Twitter.