November 2009
6 posts
Thanks to you, Tweetminster is a finalist in...
We’re delighted to announce that Tweetminster has been selected as a finalist for Mashable’s Open Web Awards in the Best Political News Site category, alongside the wonderful BBC, Huffington Post, Demotix and The Young Turks.
Thank you to everyone who voted for us and made this possible!
Voting for the final is now open, and closes on December 13th, so do head over to the OWA and...
Dear John Pugh MP
One of our followers, @gift_of_the_fab , recently pointed us to this piece by Lib Dem MP John Pugh in which he further explains his position against the use of smart phones in the HoC.
He also mentions Tweetminster in the piece, so we hope John Pugh will take the time to read why we feel his position is inaccurate:
The dichotomy between the virtual and real world is false - the virtual simply...
This week in tweets.
As the number of MPs on Twitter grows, keeping track of interesting tweets becomes more complicated, so starting this week we thought it would be helpful to list the 10 posts that we feel are the most interesting in capturing the week’s mood.
In no particular order:
@DouglasCarswell: We need a referendum on Europe - not necessarily Lisbon, but on the EU: http://bit.ly/eQKPS
@JohnPrescott:...
Are politicians running in marginal seats more...
Last week week we looked at the regional breakdown of politicians on Twitter, with some interesting results.
Based on these, we thought it would be interesting to find out if there was a correlation between politicians on Twitter and marginal seats.
Here are the results of MPs & PPCs on Twitter and in marginal seats broken down by region:
London: 31% (of MPs and PPCs on Twitter from London...
Announcing @TmLiveEvents - Tweetminster's new live...
After our invite to the Dublin Web Summit (which was a great event) it occurred to us that not everyone following @tweetminster wants to receive blow-by blow updates of the views from event panels and keynotes at conferences - so we’ve created Tweetminster Live (@TmLiveEvents) to deliver the real time buzz from live events, leaving @Tweetminster to continue digesting the most relevant news...
A regional breakdown of UK politics on Twitter
When we speak to people one of the points to often emerge is how can Twitter be used to connect with constituents and for more local politics. On Tweetminster you can already search for MPs by constituency, and we are currently working to expand the feature to PPCs and we will be releasing several more locally-relevant tools soon.
In the mean time we thought it might be helpful to use...
