POLITICIANS TURN TO TWITTER

In era globalisation, no slowing down in terms of technology. New progress and speed moved soo quickly. Politician must follow the technology for their bright future. Nowadays twitter is a media for politic battleground. The political battlegrould changing from blog to twitter. According to the Baio show that there twitter growth rate sped up drastically .

This is the graph of twitter took of soo much faster than blogger :



Advance twitter compare to blog :

-. Blogger is more difficult to use than twitter.

-. Twitter have a lot of ways to create a new post compare to blog

-. Blogger has narrow pool available compare to twitter.

The effect twittering have found successfully for politicians. Using twitter to politician has an advantages which can helped or in other way can hurt his chance.Like President Obama pretty successfully plans with the social networking like twitter,MySpace,and Facebook. With the social networking help, President Obama capable to gather round larger and also gets huge fans. He has used twitter to promote the political program and message because nowadays people are tweeting everywhere. All people can read and give their opinion, debating even them can asking question. According to Lardinois On twitter and Myspace President Obama held lead with 844,927 Myspace friend compare to McCain's 219,404. When the election day Obama increased 10,000 new friends, on the other hand McCain gained just 954.On twitter Obama has 118,107 followers whereas McCain's only 4942 followers. Politicians must have to find out what their choosers wants or needs. If their choosers have a request to their politicians, the politicians sould deliver their request so they can accept and understand. Below is the following graph:

A lot of causes Barack Obama's campaign have a more attention than McCain campaign. The demographics of twitter users are likely to fall in line strongly with today's choosers. Like, more promoting to the next political campaign. Obama use twitter is a advertasing to political candidates. Politicians have to provide leadership to pull an obsessive community online . Politicians have to inspire people with communication,empower people with tools and compesation them for participation.


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http://britishaffairs.suite101.com/article.cfm/british-politicians-turn-to-social-media

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http://kottke.org/07/05/growth-of-twitter-vs-blogger#f-0508071

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http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/social_media_obama_mccain_comparison.php