Analysing #ausvotes Posts on Twitter
Over on Fairfax’s National Times opinion site, I’ve now posted a first article examining the use of Twitter during the early election campaign – for the first week of campaigning, excluding the debate last Sunday (which I’ve examined on Mapping Online Publics, my new network mapping blog with Jean Burgess, here and here).
As Jason, Barry and I did with our Club Bloggery series for ABC Online during the 2007 federal election, I’m also posting the full text of the article here, in my original version. For what it’s worth, I much preferred my original title rather than the more anemic ‘All a-Twitter on the Campaign Trail’ that Fairfax’s sub-editors settled on…
Which Political Leader Would You Rather …?
By Axel Bruns
Tweet, that is. Internationally, the short-message social networking service Twitter itself has been used by a number of recent political contenders as a campaigning tool, with varying degrees of success; the Twitterati tend to get frustrated quickly by campaigns that merely use the system to push out PR messages, without any indication that there’s a real human being behind the account.
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