The Vancouver police have finally joined the Twitterverse, launching their feed with an all-day tweet-a-thon.

At 8 a.m. on Thursday, Const. Anne Longley started tweeting almost every call the department received in a publicity stunt to get as many followers as possible.

"I think it's working," Longley told CTV News. "Right now, it's a bit difficult to keep up with it."

By 6 p.m., the VancouverPD feed had nearly 2,300 followers.

The tweets ranged from safety tips to traffic accidents to big news like the lockdown at Gladstone Secondary.

Some of the minor incidents even strayed into the comical, like the report from downtown of "possibly intoxicated woman dancing on street and impeding pedestrians and traffic."

The force has been a frontrunner in the digital world, setting up a recruiting office in the virtual world of Second Life in 2007, and becoming the first police department in the country with a Facebook page a year later.

But the VPD is behind the ball on Twitter -- police in Toronto, Calgary and Montreal have had accounts for some time.

Other B.C. police departments have already joined the Twitter craze: the B.C. Mounties and Saanich municipal police both have feeds and the Victoria Police Department gives updates almost every hour.

Social media strategist Rob Cottingham says the VPD is creating a lot of buzz with its new initiative.

"It's tremendously innovative and it's fascinating," he said.

Somebody's already created a fake site for the force -- a sure sign that the VPD is a "somebody" in the online world.

"Steve Jobs got a fake account. There's a fake Sarah Palin," Cottingham said.

He also had some advice for the VPD to capture the attention of followers.

"They're going to want to be a lot more conversational, they're going to want to do a lot more responding to people and engaging with them on Twitter," he said.

With a report from CTV British Columbia's St. John Alexander