I thought that as we are getting all political on Connecting Bristol at the moment, I would share this with you! I noticed that we are now being followed by No10 Downing street on our Twitter site at the moment. (For more info on Twitter take a look here.)
The No10 webmaster does admit that “Downing Street staff are getting used to this Twitter business”. They go on to say that “Suggestions, criticisms and witticisms are welcome.”
Clearly the PM and his office are on the web offensive to try to “re-engage” with the public masses online. I notice that there is a selection of staged photos on a Flickr site that have appeared also.
Could this be a response to the 29% showing in the polls…….. who knows? Well, in the spirit of public engagement we asked the No.10 Twitter this question; if we get a response I’ll let you know in the comment section below.
The Downing Street site has 444 followers and there has already been several jokes, about April Fools, put on there today.
Interestingly, some heavyweight commentators have started asking some awkward questions, too. For example, the Head of New Media at Al Jaseera has started asking questions about when the Iraq war will end. Apparently there will be an announcement today at 15:30 by Des Brown, so you heard it here first!
Perhaps they envisaged that Twitter would be another broadcast tool rather than a live chat site. I think that the web master is being inundated with questions!
If you are interested, the Liberal Democrats have a popular Twitter with 317 followers and David Cameron, less so, with 78 followers (albeit an unofficial Twitter.)
