Changes in position and score are since March’s figures, and the same caveats apply as before to these numbers from TweetLevel (i.e. Twitter isn’t the only thing in the world, and this isn’t the only way of measuring people’s influence on / use of Twitter).
New this month to Twitter are Evan Harris, Nick Harvey and Charles Kennedy, bringing the total number of tweeting Liberal Democrat MPs up to 30.
UPDATE: Mark Williams has also joined Twitter recently. Apologies for missing you first time round Mark.
New entrant Evan is straight in at the top of the list. That’s no fluke: Evan’s put the work into working out how to use Twitter well and has built up a good community which reaches out beyond the usual activists suspects. Paul Burstow’s rise up the table is the other striking move.
1. (new) DrEvanHarris 51 (new)
2. (-1) nick_clegg 48 (-7)
3. (-1) joswinson 44 (-8)
3=. (nc) SandraGidley 44 (-2)
5=. (-1) lfeatherstone 42 (-2)
5=. (-1) philwillismp 42 (-2)
5=. (+1) vincecable 42 (nc)
8. (+11) PaulBurstow 39 (+17)
9=. (-2) normanlamb 36 (-4)
9=. (+1) SusanKramer 36 (+4)
11=. (-1) GregMulholland1 35 (+3)
11=. (-1) jgoldsworthy 35 (+3)
13. (-5) willie_rennie 33 (-4)
14. (-5) acarmichael4mp 30 (-3)
15. (+2) ChrisHuhne 28 (+3)
15=. (+4) JLeechMP 28 (+6)
15=. (-2) timfarron 28 (-2)
18=. (-3) AnnetteBrookeMP 27 (+1)
18=. (-5) moore4borders 27 (-3)
20. (+5) DonFosterMP 25 (+6)
21. (-6) AndrewGeorgeMP 24 (-2)
22. (new) mark4ceredigion 22 (new)
23=. (new) charles_kennedy 21 (new)
23=. (-5) eddaveymp 21 (-2)
23=. (-2) stevewebb1 21 (-1)
26. (-4) thomasbrake 20 (n/c)
27=. (-5) lembitopik 19 (-1)
27=. (nc) malcolmbruce 19 (+1)
27=. (-2) PaulRowen 19 (n/c)
30=. (-8) dannyalexander 16 (-4)
30=. (new) NickHarveyND 16 (new)
And finally, ahem, I would come in top of this table (hey, my initials are MP so why shouldn’t I be in the table?) with libdemvoice in second just ahead of Evan Harris. Make of that what you will…
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You’ve missed one off, Mark Williams started tweeting a couple of weeks back!
Thanks Greg. Will update.
Thanks Mark.
Straight in at number one – feel like a boy band! Not sure what your exact metric is but I thinks its very sound.
You say I have “built up a good community which reaches out beyond the usual activists suspects”.
Folks, what he means is “a bunch of science nerds and sceptic geeks”. And the odd nerdette.
Well done Evan, keep up the good work!
-An odd nerdette.
Who follows these people? What do they have in common? I’ve looked at the top ten, using hunch. (Spam filters prevent me adding links to each of these.)
Five of these don’t have enough followers for hunch to analyse; the remainder are drevanharris, nick_clegg, joswinson, lfeatherstone, and vincecable. (Spam filters prevent me adding links to each of these.)
Bizzarely, it appears that the only common feature to unite people who follow these Lib Dem MPs is that they don’t consider themselves handy around the house. No political cohesion, such as we see for barackobama or sarahpalinusa.
For UK comparators see eg bengoldacre, whose followers clearly have common interests; or downingstreet , lorddrayson, tom_watson, …
For amusement, see also sleepingtime to see how, and when, your MP is sleeping!
Interesting analysis Michael. I think it reinforces the point that whilst Twitter can be about a small number of people in the political/media bubble all following each other, it also can be about reaching people in your constituency/ward – and hence little overlap between one MP’s followers and those of another.
Mark,
Yes, maybe you could infer that they have broad appeal. They’re in illustrious company.
Hutch says, “The followers of billgates that we could match with Hunch accounts did not have enough questions answered in common.”
5050 Voters List System
Built in Term Limits
4 & Half Year Fixed Term Parliament
EVERY MP has a Constituency
A choice between 2 MP surgeries
Very Simple; just 1 vote to cast
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ie.
Half the MPs Elected on 1st past post.
&
The other Half of the seats distributed to Candidates on the Voters Lists to top up the numbers for Proportional Representation
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1.
Double the size of the constituencies.
2.
Directly elect 50% of MPs, 1 MP per constituency on 1st past the post.
3.
The Voters Lists are Nationwide PRIORITISED lists of 2nd, 3rd or 4th place candidates.
Top of Voters List For each Party is candidate with highest percentage of the vote.
4.
Allocate additional seats to candidates on the Voters Lists to top up the party totals to match the national percentage of the vote for each Party.
5.
An incumbent re-elected due to a high position on the Voters List is Disqualified from ALL future elections for 5 years.
ie.
Built in 2 Term Limits for Unpopular & Mediocre MPs.
The voters automatically override the 2 term limit by putting a candidate 1st past post in a constituency.
6.
To guarantee 4 & Half Year Fixed Term Parliament,
any MP who resigns is Disqualified from ALL future elections for 5 years.
7.
This system MUST be part of a WRITTEN Constitution & Bill of rights that can only be amended by 60% of eligible voters.
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This system fulfils all requirements.
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The Voters will never forgive you if you get a chance to install PR & choose a Party List system.
A Party List IS A STITCH UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A Voters List is DEMOCRATIC.
Top of each Voters List would be someone who came so close that his voters could almost taste it but they felt robbed by just a few votes.
In this way, it is the voters who decide who gets a seat in Parliament, not the Party Hierarchy who would give priority to arse-lickers.
EVERY MP will have a Constituency
&
some Constituencies will have 2 or even 3 MPs
&
they will be from DIFFERENT parties & will have to compete with each other to run the best surgeries.
A Voters List keeps out candidates who Voters definitely do not want instead of having their wishes bypassed by the party.
Any candidates that get a small percentage of the votes will definitely NOT get an additional seat.
That will make some candidates try harder to explain themselves at the election.
4 & Half Year Fixed Term Parliament means that PM will only have the advantage of budget day for alternate Parliaments.
&
Parties will HAVE TO Co-operate because they cannot call a premature election.
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