Tweetminster lets people follow and connect with UK politics using Twitter.
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- December 2008
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- Dear John Pugh MP 06 November 14:31
- This week in tweets. 06 November 04:00
- Are politicians running in marginal seats more likely to tweet? 05 November 06:14
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. ...
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...
Last week week we looked at the regional breakdown of politicians on Twitter, with someinteresting 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...
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 t...
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...
Last night we ran a little experiment during BBC Question Time aimed at measuring the volume and sentiment of tweets during the programme. You can view the various stats inour Twitter feed. We hope you found it useful and would love to know your thoughts and feedback...
Of the 768 tweets from MPs, PPCs, journalists, bloggers, influencers and news sources during David Cameron’s speech the split of positive, negative and neutral reactions was as follows: 40% Neutral30% Positive30% Negative The breakdown is possibly impacted by the greater presence of Labour a...
Day three of the Conservative Conference got off to a slower start than normal. As Nadine Dorris MP tweeted “Everyone looks exhausted today after last night’s parties. If you could bottle the atmosphere and sell it you’d easily fund the GE campaign”. The da...
Day two of the Conservative conference dawned with Monday’s sunshine replaced by lashing rain. ...
Tweetminster arrived in Manchester with our co-founder @albertonardelli complaining about the cold and our strategist (and today’s blogger) @abeddard enthusing about being back in his home city after an interval of a quarter of a century. ...
It was another sunny morning in Brighton to see out Labour’s 2009 conference, drawing a comment from David Miliband that “The sun has shone on this conference every day… not the one printed in Wapping”. In many respects Miliband’s appearance was the most anticipated event of the day. The Fore...
After receiving lots of questions from @tweetminster followers, we got exclusive access to Environment Secretary Ed Miliband for a thirty minute twinterview. We were also joined by Labour’s New Media Spokesperson Kerry McCarthy . ...
As we tweeted last night after our strangely zen audioboo with Jon Snow of C4 news.The Sun are backing the Conservatives...
One of the biggest bangs to emerge from this week’s Labour Party Conference was The Sun’s endorsement of the Conservatives. We ran a little experiment on the sentiment on Twitter around the story. Th...
Thanks for all the questions submitted by @tweetminster followers, here’s the full transcript of Ed’s replies and a link to the final Audioboo question: Q: Can you summarise Labour’s manifesto in 140 characters? @edm...
