How are the party leaders doing on Twitter?

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How are the party leaders doing on Twitter?

By Mark Pack | Tue 13th April 2010 - 12:45 pm

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I’ve used Edelman’s Tweetlevel tool for my monthly round-ups of how Liberal Democrat MPs are doing on Twitter, so the figures just outabout how the party leaders are doing as measured by that tool caught my eye.

Some of the headline findings are:

Gordon Brown wins Twitter war by volume
Clegg is the leader with most favourability
Cameron “gets people’s goats” – exciting most negative Tweets, but Cameron’s negative ratings have decreased since the call of the General Election
Tory NI pledge gives Cameron significant uplift in favourability
Over 50,000 Tweets on the party leaders since 2^2nd March, with nearly half of that since General Election
Clegg’s increased profile increases favourability towards him, but also excites more negative sentiment

You can get the full Edelman report here.

Read more by Mark Pack or more about david cameron, gordon brown, nick clegg or twitter.
This entry was posted in General Election and Online politics.

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