June 2009
5 posts
Why Twitter is Magic: it's more human.
The recent events in Iran have once again shun a light on Twitter’s great potential and power to bring people together, showing there is a deeper meaningfulness to Twitter that will lead to a greater and lasting impact than just the “next big thing”.
As we said a few months ago on the Daily Politics, Twitter truly is a communications shift.
Why is this so?
Most networks...
Is a "one issue at the time" politics inevitable?
The fact that political discourse is driven by the day’s media headlines is for some a cliche’ and for others a profession. While in parallel the shortening of people’s attention span may be a given, and has in spin a natural consequence. 140 characters and the explosion of real time news and information possibly accentuate both realities.
Yet in their hearts and minds...
The Plan: what Gordon Brown said, what you...
At Westminster today Gordon Brown presented his plan to reform Parliament. The full transcript can be found here.
We thought it would be interesting to use Wordle to generate a tag cloud for his speech, and compare this to the thoughts of people on Twitter. Thanks to those that sent us their thoughts. To these we added a little research of our own.
Here’s what you thought:
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Ministers on Twitter
Ministers on Twitter: @HarietHarman - Deputy Leader Labour Party @SadiqKhan - Minister of State for Transport. @lorddrayson - Minister of State for Science and Innovation @LiamByrneMP - Chief Secretary to the Treasury @BenBradshawMP - Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport @JimKnightMP - Minister of State for Employment @ScotlandOffice (Jim Murphy) - Secretary of State for Scotland...
In defence of statistics.
The following post isn’t a defence of Gordon Brown. The mission of Tweetminster is to make politics more open, and this mission is independent of any party and politician, and is free from the bias of any particular agenda. We hope that this premise is extremely clear.
Instead, this post is in defence of statistics.
Earlier today, Channel 4 posted its analysis of a YouGov/ITN survey. The...
