Twitter needs a new first vowel!

Following on from the government employing another member of the Russian royal family (surely there is only one Tsar at a time?), as head of online campaigning for the Labour party, I couldn’t help wondering what a waste of time this all is. Bristol East MP Kerry McCarthy has been appointed to get the Labour message across to Britain’s internet nation in time for the next election. This means that she and her minions will be utilising Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites as investments in their cause.

However, if you are going to campaign for a political party, using Twitter to put your policies forward isn’t a good idea unless you are simply linking to a blog or website. For a start, a 140 character limit will highlight any transparency or lack of policy if it can be posted there in it’s entirety! Additionally, the majority of people who post on Twitter are not concerned with politics, just obsessed with pushing the mundane aspects of their daft lives on other people.

“Hi guys, just going to bed with my copy of Gordon’s biography. Ciao!”

I don’t think so, do you?

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