On Monday afternoon, Mayor Marty Walsh engaged with Boston Twitter users to answer any questions they might have about municipal matters or the early days of his administration. And though he wasn’t able to answer every question fired at him in the form of 140 characters, he made a noticeable effort to respond to as many as possible – even eclipsing the 30-minute window he used during his first Twitter chat.

The overriding themes of the social media forum were, for the most part, in relation to small business and the food truck industry, Public Works projects like snow removal and pothole filling, Boston Public Schools reform and the possibility of playing host to the Olympics.

In short, he and his administration are working on revamping legislation to allow for unobstructed food trucks, continuing their efforts to use social media and new technology to combat snowy streets and sidewalks, and would rather invest in Boston Public School efforts than the possibility of a Summer Olympics over a decade down the road. (Yes, he prefers the summer games to the winter.)

But it wasn’t all business as usual. After all, have we learned nothing from The Shining (“All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy”)? Mayor Walsh responded to plenty of Twitter queries in a digital voice oozing with what’s becoming his signature style of dry, Dorchester humor.

Granted, some participants were a bit disgruntled by the mayor’s nonchalant approach to the Twitter chat and, to a degree, maybe understandably so. Perhaps there were times when Mayor Walsh could’ve expanded on his answers or given precedence to one question over another.

It’s important to consider that this type of symposium is far from a full-fledged press conference. It’s not like he was standing face to face with a slew of reporters, microphone in hand, with an abundance of speaking time at his disposal. What kind of depth can people really expect from responses limited to just 140 characters? This was a dialogue, not a means to a specific policy-driven end.

To the Mayor’s credit, and in what can likely be lumped in to the increasing push toward heightened Boston Redevelopment Authority transparency, the BRA joined in on the action, addressing a number of development-related questions on his behalf.

Sure, there weren’t a whole lot of major policy declarations made during the half-hour social media session. But if nothing else, Mayor Walsh is making himself available to a specific Boston demographic in a way that his predecessor did not. As I wrote earlier today:

One could liken Mayor Walsh’s early adoption of social media to the way Thomas Jefferson wielded the power of the newspaper, Franklin Roosevelt the radio and John F. Kennedy the television. Any media is an invaluable resource and Mayor Walsh is smart to have tapped into it from the early days of his administration.

As for when the mayor will host another social media chat (he’s begun dabbling in the Facebook variety), it’s unclear at this time. Stay tuned to BostInno for more info on upcoming digital discussions. In the meantime, let us know how you think Mayor Walsh fared in his second go at a Twitter Q&A in the comments section below.

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