How Canada’s Political Leaders are Using Twitter
Given my recently announced addiction, I thought I’d look at little more closely at how the Canadian political leaders are using Twitter. The answer surprised me.
They kind of aren’t using it all.
Since the beginning of the week here’s how it breaks down:
- Harper: total 9 tweets including 1 @ reply, the rest stand alone tweets
- Ignatieff: total 4 tweets, all stand alone
- Layton: total 5 tweets, all stand alone
- May: total 9 tweets, including 1 retweet, 3 @ replies, 9 stand alone
Maybe I shouldn’t be surprised, even if it is the real deal tweeting (which I doubt) I suppose they don’t have a lot of time to be getting into conversations with people. But isn’t that kind of the point of being there?
Can’t help but think what it would do for a party to entertain the idea of really engaging with the great unwashed. Even if it’s just for an hour along the lines of #b2bchat. It just might allow people to get to know them a little, maybe even like them.
Maybe they need a little help with what to tweet about. Jason Wightman has a few ideas about that in “11 things Canada’s political leaders should tweet about”.
Would you jump into the conversation if the leaders were more engaged on Twitter?
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