Political Twittering - Page 2

mthead · 28-02-2009, 22:34

Are they not all guilty off twittering? PMSL

Mancie · 28-02-2009, 23:28

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

shakermaker · 28-02-2009, 23:33

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

Greg Pope · 02-03-2009, 13:11

Fair point, Andrew. I've been thinking about setting up a blog for a while now but I'm not sure. I find Facebook, email and, of course, Accyweb all useful ways of keeping in touch and contact.

andrewb · 02-03-2009, 17:37

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Originally Posted by Greg Pope

Fair point, Andrew. I've been thinking about setting up a blog for a while now but I'm not sure. I find Facebook, email and, of course, Accyweb all useful ways of keeping in touch and contact.

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.

entwisi · 03-03-2009, 06:36

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Originally Posted by shakermaker

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

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

andrewb · 29-03-2009, 23:26

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Originally Posted by andrewb

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.

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.

shakermaker · 30-03-2009, 06:45

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

andrewb · 30-03-2009, 06:56

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Originally Posted by shakermaker

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

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.

shakermaker · 30-03-2009, 07:16

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.

jaysay · 30-03-2009, 08:46

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Originally Posted by shakermaker

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.

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

andrewb · 30-03-2009, 09:30

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Originally Posted by shakermaker

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.

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

shakermaker · 02-04-2009, 06:01

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."

jaysay · 02-04-2009, 09:21

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Originally Posted by shakermaker

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."

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