A Politician’s Role in the Twitterverse, Part One: Follower to Friend Ratio
New guest article series! These posts on a “Politican’s Role in the Twitterverse” were a joint collaboration between Sandi Fox, Smart As A Fox Consulting (@smartasafox) and Sean Hurley, Hear Forward (@seanphurley). This article originally appeared on SmartAsAFox.
A Politician’s Role in the Twitterverse, Part One: Follower to Friend Ratio
It all began with a tweet from a college friend:
“Should Politicians follow all of their own followers? What do you think? Should mutual following be a priority for politicians on #twitter?”
To which I responded simply – “No” and in my limited 140 characters explained that it isn’t beneficial for any person, let alone a politician to follow everyone due to the large number of “spam tweeters” and non-active users. And so began our Twitter discussion on the role politicians should play within the greater Twitterverse, and how they may view their own roles as part of the greater community.
Politicians are just like other tweeters, are they not? They use Twitter to share and disseminate information, while also striving to stay current and absorb additional news. Twitter is also a new way to hear from district and national constituents on specific issues that are being discussed. The real issue is that every politician approaches their use of Twitter differently, some don’t even utilize it at all.
To Follow and/or to Be Followed? – That is the Question
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