Archive for twitter
Lib Dem achievements, communicating peers and election timetables
A trio of resources for your weekend’s delectation: Electoral timetable for May’s elections: I’ve recently updated my May 2012 election timetable post with extra details Liberal Democrat peers on Twitter: having commented adversely in the past on the lack of communications from many of them, I’ve been hunting out how many are using Twitter. You [...]
Brian Paddick’s new Twitter account
Liberal Democrat candidate for London Mayor, Brian Paddick, has a new Twitter account to back-up his cross-London listening exercise: @BrianListening. You can follow the Liberal Democrat GLA members and candidates, including this new account, in one place via the list twitter.com/markpack/london-assembly.
Well, if Amazon can’t do the digital stuff right…
One tweet sent 17 days ago, no reply received, so one local charity shop will benefit: Odd though that Amazon doesn’t do Twitter for customer service (and the reason I went for Twitter is that I couldn’t navigate my way round all the options about returning faulty or damaged goods to find something to fit [...]
My seven favourite tweets of 2011
RT @markpack: “BBC News – Tory MP sorry after novelty tie breaks into speech – http://bbc.in/fHr6Be” A case of So, La Tie D’oh! — Andrew Lucas (@bythewatersedge) January 19, 2011 Simon Hughes was actually elected in 1978 – but didn’t take office until the 80′s #slfconf #terminallylate — Martin Shapland (@MShapland) June 18, [...]
Gordon Birtwistle makes it 34 Liberal Democrat MPs on Twitter
Gordon Birtwistle, MP for Burnley and PPS to Danny Alexander, is the latest Liberal Democrat MP to join Twitter. He is @GBirtwistle. You can follow all of the Liberal Democrat MPs on Twitter via the list I curate at twitter.com/markpack/libdem-mps and, if you have more of a London interest, you can follow the Liberal Democrat GLA members and [...]
Commons votes to allow Twitter but MP demands minister communicates via letter
Yesterday Parliament voted by 206-63 to allow MPs to (continue to) tweet from the Chamber, by rejecting an amendment that would have gutted this proposal, subsequently passed: That this House notes the Third Report from the Procedure Committee on Use of hand-held electronic devices in the Chamber and committees, HC 889; and resolves that hand-held [...]
5 things you shouldn’t miss: how things look different when drunk, new things to do with T-shirts and more
Welcome to the latest in our monthly collection of five links that you shouldn’t miss. Life looks different drunk or sober http://bit.ly/n51kcB Not perhaps the most surprising revelation, but have a look at this video which uses a ‘double layer’ video technique to show two versions of the same event. In this case, a couple on [...]
Twitter security tips
The Twitter developer blog has some good tips on how to use Twitter securely, including the obvious (good passwords, surprise), the not so obvious (what to do if your account is compromised) and the never occurred to me (such as the benefits of using a corporate email account with a Twitter account). The full post [...]
Jenny Willott is the newest Liberal Democrat MP on Twitter
Jenny Willott, MP for Cardiff Central, is the latest Liberal Democrat MP to join Twitter. She’s @JennyWillott. Nice to see that Jenny’s second tweet is promoting her email campaigning – a good reminder of the sensible order of priorities for (almost) any politician. You can follow all of the Liberal Democrat MPs on Twitter via the [...]
Twittering about Liberal Democrat autumn conference?
If you are, then the hashtag people are using again looks to be #ldconf. And if you’re wondering what a hashtag is… it’s just a bit of text that everyone talking about a particular event uses. If we all use the same tag, it means you can easily search and find what other people are saying [...]
