Twitter making inroads amongst US politicians
June 20th, 2009 | by bgmahesh |
Gov Arnie
Came across yet another Twitter related article on the web, this time on CNN,
A plane carrying California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger made an emergency landing Friday evening after the cockpit filled with smoke, his office said in a statement.
Schwarzenegger confirmed the incident with a tweet on the social-networking Web site, Twitter. He also included a photo of the jet on the tarmac…More
I guess Twitter is the most often utility written about these days on the net, you almost feel you rarely read about Google!
Mayawati on Twitter?
Mayawati
I think it is really cool to see these famous politicians connecting with people thru’ Twitter.
Indian politicians have at least started having their own websites/blogs and very few are getting onto twitter. Even if they are on twitter it is rarely updated.
Can you imagine what PM-aspirant Mayawati’s tweets would look like?
- Unveiled my 5 foot statue
- Unveiled yet another statue of mine. Do you have a problem? You better not.
- Replaced Mahatma Gandhi’s statue with your beloved leader’s (that is ME!) statue.
- I have sent 400 policemen to capture ONE dacoit. What an idea Sir ji (or Behen-ji)?
Hmm..let us leave things the way it is. I don’t want to see the Twitter landscape with these kinds of tweets. Jokes apart I encourage you to follow @Shashi Tharoor
Verified Account On Twitter
The interesting thing to see was the “Verified Account“ sign on @Schwarzenegger. I am sure @SRK would have loved to see this on blogs during IPL-2 – the fake IPL player had given him enough grief (but then why would someone want to verify a ‘fake’ person?)
This useful ‘verified account’ feature on Twitter was launched on June 11, 2009. As of today I haven’t come across any Indian based ‘Verified Account’. I am sure we will see one soon.
Indian Twitters Have Lower #Followers
While we do read India is having a sizable Twitter userbase the ‘followers’ of Indian Twitters come no where close to US Twitters. For e.g. @Schwarzenegger has over 380k followers and our own @SRK has about 9k followers. But then India is different.
One of the reasons could be that very few are online ‘all the time’. I find Twitter useful because I am online most of the time and I get to see (or should I say ‘hear’) the tweets as they happen.
Tags: twitter, verified twitter account
