Following a few gripes about whether some of the accounts I’ve registered on Twitter in the past break Twitter’s Rules, here is a response. First of all, what accounts do I own that fall into this category? 20 accounts for
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Tag: Social Media
8 weeks of DK Ministries on Twitter: taking stock
Just under 2 months ago I set about getting all Danish Ministries on Twitter, unofficially. The blog post about why I did it can be found here, and the list of the accounts can be found here. So what has
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As I have previously lamented, Danish politics has been slow to take to social media, especially Twitter. So today I present my next step to do something about it… As far as I can tell, none of the 20 Ministries
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Avanti Europe – a European version of change.org or Avaaz?
A bunch of committed Europeans – Green MEPs Franziska Brantner and Sven Giegold, and Thomas Houdaille, Charlotte Keup, Virginia Mucchi and Spyros Michailidis – have launched a new website called Avanti Europe. It essentially looks like some sort of European version
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Brussels EU tweetup, Irish Presidency version, 6th March, James Joyce Pub
After the successful first event back in November, there will be a second EU Tweetup – this time on Wednesday 6th March, from 1800, at the James Joyce Pub, Rue Archimède 34, 2 minutes away from Schuman. The basic idea
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Have you signed up for a Twitter account recently? If not, then have a go – it’s not a good impression
What is Twitter for? Is it a network of – for want of another term – ‘normal’ people who discuss amongst themselves? Or is it a way for all of us to slavishly follow the rich and famous? I ask
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If Helle Thorning-Schmidt is to join Twitter, this is how to do it
TechCrunch this week highlighted that 75% of the world’s heads of state are now on Twitter. While there’s some grounds to quibble about the definition of a head of state, and the number of countries featured, the rise of Twitter
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Ad hoc EU nerds tweetup – blogup, Monday 26th November, 1830, Café des épices, Pl Jourdan
After lots of tweets and e-mails exchanged it seemed best to summarise everything in a blog post… I’m going to be in Brussels for 48 hours 25th-27th November, and as I haven’t been in the city for a while it
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Commissioners on Twitter: how are they doing?
The European Commission, and Commissioners themselves, have progressively taken to Twitter over the past couple of years as a way of communicating with (at?) EU citizens. So how are they doing? This blog entry gives a quick summary. My starting
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How the Tories got it wrong with the @David_Cameron Twitter account
This is not a post about the politics of David Cameron. It is instead an analysis of what the Tories did wrong – in communications and web tech terms – with the launch of the @David_Cameron Twitter account that finally
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Celebrity and Twitter
What is Twitter? Is it a network between (for want of a better word) ‘ordinary’ people like me? Or is it a spotlight into the lives of the rich and famous, with Twitter the means for these people to transmit
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Why social media will have at best a marginal effect on the 2014 EP elections
Due to a short Twitter debate with @huettemann I have promised to write this post. As far as I am concerned, social media will have at best a marginal effect on the 2014 European Parliament elections. Here’s why. First though
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