Political activists and councillors who tweet in Reading
There has been much media excitement over Twitter in recent weeks. The T word is rapidly becoming a household name.
It has yet to catch on with local political activists and councillors, however.
A bit of quick research on my part has revealed that the following only are tweeting:
- Daisy Benson (CllrDaisyBenson) - Lib Dem councillor
- Dave Luckett (daveluckett) - Conservative councillor
- Warren Swaine (waswasere) - Lib Dem councillor
- Adrian Windisch (AdrianWindisch) - Chair of Reading Green Party
- Peter Skinner (PeterSkinnerMEP) - MEP, represents SE England
Glenn Goodall (Lib Dem councillor) is less than convinced, describing it as “a little pointless“.
Martin Salter MP is also unenthusiastic, though it will reportedly be much easier for Labour Party MPs to engage with constituents using Twitter with the recent launch of a new CMS. I will then have more scrolling to do on this MPs who tweet page (currently there are just 15).
Have I missed anyone locally?
…much easier to engage, or to stalk?
For its own sake tweeting is rather pointless.
I wouldn’t be tweeting either until I discovered the widget that will update your Facebook status at the same time!