Archive for twitter
How to lurk on Twitter
Take a rummage around the Twitter profiles of people in politics and you will quickly discover a rarely talked about species of Twitterer – the lurker. They sign up to Twitter, follow various people but never send a tweet themselves. The logic is that if you want to keep an eye on what is being [...]
5 things you shouldn’t miss: controlling YouTube with your head, finding out who loves you on Google+ and more
Welcome to the ninth in our monthly collection of five weblinks that you shouldn’t miss, put together by the Digital Leadership Group. Use your head to control YouTube http://bizt.ag/g2L9Nw Hugo Boss has developed an intriguing YouTube film, which is controlled by your head movements (as detected via a webcam). Tilt your head left or right and [...]
David Ward makes it 33 Liberal Democrat MPs on Twitter
David Ward, MP for Bradford East, is the latest Liberal Democrat Parliamentarian to join Twitter. He’s @DavidWardMP and his very early steps look promising, including retweeting and use of hashtags. David’s success in winning Bradford East at the general election is one of the quiet successes the party could learn more from. There were many [...]
You shall tweet 100 times…
A court in Malaysia has taken an unusual approach to twitter and defamation – by requiring someone to tweet an apology 100 times over three days. Fahmi Fadzil had claimed in a tweet a pregnant friend of his had been badly treated by managers at work. The company involved responded by taking out legal action. [...]
I agree with Olly
To Islington this evening to hear Newsnight regular Olly Grender speak. Although our paths have crossed many times in the party over the years, our backgrounds and experiences are fairly different – which made it all the more interesting to hear her make two comments that chime very closely with things I’ve been saying. She [...]
Ming Campbell makes it 32 Liberal Democrat MPs on Twitter
Following a brief foray on to Twitter before Christmas, Lib Dem MP for North East Fife Ming Campbell has now started up again on Twitter. He’s @MingCampbellMP. (Ming’s got quite a long record of being active on social media, and a success of mine when at Liberal Democrat HQ was getting him on to Facebook [...]
Learning the lessons from last week #6: Talking to yourself is not enough
There was a highly symbolic moment late in the Yes campaign when its final TV broadcast was made. The TV broadcast featured Dan Snow and was a remake of an earlier Dan Snow film, shot to higher production standards (understandable) and also, intentionally or not, featuring a cast that overall looked younger. From being a [...]
Facebook commenting: right, what's it like then?
Just coming to the end of the latest round of changes on this site. You’ll notice a lot more Facebook integration, both in the right hand column and in the footer, alongside some tidying up of the design and smaller improvements here and there. But the other big functional changing is trying out moving over [...]
Am I really more influential than Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg?
He’s Deputy Prime Minister. He chairs a clutch of Cabinet Committees. He’s got a civil service staff and a dedicated press team. A few weeks of the year he’s running the country, nuclear submarines included. I’m me. But stick our Twitter accounts into standard and popular influence measuring tools such as Klout or PeerIndex and [...]
How do the Liberal Democrat MPs on Twitter measure up?
It’s been a while since I’ve looked at how Liberal Democrat MPs are doing on Twitter, so here’s an up to date table listing all 31 with Twitter accounts and their PeerIndex scores. Like Klout, PeerIndex gives a rating out of 100 based on factors such as number of followers, how often their messages are [...]
