Political Twittering
 

Labour tells its MPs to get busy web-spinning - UK Politics, UK - The Independent

Labour want to get it's MP's twittering. So come on Greg, wheres yours? :D

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gordon brown is a class A twit and believe me if the site woudl allow me to use an A instead of an I that would be a good description as well

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Greg Pope does use Facebook.

We'll leave the politcal twit-tering to you.

;):D

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Exactly! http://planetsmilies.net/kaos-animal...miley-6086.gif

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Well if they are all consiering web spinning then I hope they have held a public inquiry and have a commons commitee to assess the adverse impact this will have. There is likely to be a protest from the Incy Wincy Spider Union over there skills being nicked. :p

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its because as the article says- they trail badly the conservatives at twittering, which everyone knows anyway.:D

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I always thought that all politicians twittered anyway, we get enough on here, and yes Neil, Rindi and cashy, I do include myself in that:D

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Politicians need to amuse us in these hard times ;)
YouTube - The Birdie Song - The Tweets
There was a you tube link to the birdie song but it hasn't shown

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Showing here ok.

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They do in the polls as well.....:tongueout

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seem to recall a similar thing way back, then "Thatcher" was elected n ruined the country.:tongueout

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Are you sure of that? I am sure she did what the Third Reich couldnt in that she brought it to its knees. Its a pity that the effort put in to twittering spinning cowpatting isnt matched by action at the same level. One day it will sink in that action speaks louder than words but possibley only after we fall into the middle ages type of life again and civil war looms.

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I don't want politicians to be 'twittering' at our expense.......I want them to get on with the job they are paid to do......get the UK out of the brown sticky stuff would be good.......surely with their collective brains there should be someone out there who could make a better fist of it.

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In fairness there seems to be a lot of twits twittering.;)

Twitter / Conservatives

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I think I'll stick to Accyweb and facebook - it seems easier to follow the threads.

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Are they not all guilty off twittering? PMSL :)

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Twittering? I thought it was impersonating bird songs...like ..tweet tweet blah blah.. thats a sparrow!

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We should all revolt, installing Stephen Fry as absolute ruler of all British things. Abolish any form of attempted half arsed wimpy democracy and make redundant all politicians. Problem solved - no more annoying threads on politics :D

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I think as an elected representative blogs are a good way of putting out a positive message of what you're achieving. I personally don't think twitter is any good for this sort of thing. Maybe if you're Barack Obama, but not for MP's. :D

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I'd go for a partnership of Fry and Clarkson personally! :D

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Actually I think I'd like to take this back. I've started using Twitter and I actually think it's an absolutely fantastic way to get short amounts of information across. Currently I 'follow' things like BBC Breaking News, and political blogs, it allows me to just read through short amounts of very up to date text to find what I'm interested in reading.

I'd actually find it very useful and informative if MP's or in fact councillors used Twitter, now that I've had chance to get used to it.

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Something for the soundbite generation of politicians to thrive under I suppose.

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Could look at it that way. I see it as an easy way to browse through what's happening and hopefully ones requiring more detail will be linked to a blog.

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Ah, but would such blog links be able to squeeze into the dreaded size zero of the cyber ether: 140 characters?

I only joined up last night. I haven't a clue how it all works just yet.

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140 characters shaker, Jonesy would be snookered then wouldn't he:D

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Ahh well theres a way around this! This is a link to my blog: http://tinyurl.com/cexyhz

What's your Twitter link Shakermaker? Mines http://twitter.com/andrewbarrett :D

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Expert April Fool by the Guardian yesterday:

Twitter switch for Guardian, after 188 years of ink | Media | The Guardian

"At a time of unprecedented challenge for all print media, many publications have rushed to embrace social networking technologies. Most now offer Twitter feeds of major breaking news headlines, while the Daily Mail recently pioneered an iPhone application providing users with a one-click facility for reporting suspicious behaviour by migrants or gays."

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Can only presume that the Guardian will offer a similar facility as the Mail only for its none Job columns:D