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Luton Council ignores calls to censor Councillors use of Twitter
No comments on Luton Council ignores calls to censor Councillors use of TwitterLast month the local press reported that the most recent meeting of the full council of Luton Borough Council was going to debate some guidance on how Councillors should use the social networking service Twitter. This is the paper that was presented to Councillors at that meeting on the 16 July 2013: http://www.scribd.com/doc/156507641/Report-to-Luton-Borough-Council-on-Social-Media-July-2013 The paper is an obvious fudge. From a careful reading I reckon that the true story is probably something like the following;…
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Random Thoughts for 24th January 2013
This is the latest in my series of Random Thoughts posts with links, things found on the web and other stuff that has occurred to me between 9th January 2013 and 24th January 2013: 150 great things about the Underground This month we celebrated 150 years of the London Underground. So I am linking to this fantastic blog (hat-tip Liberal England ). Looking through it I was blown away by the richness and extent of the…
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Last year’s astroturfing of Luton South
I’m catching up on various bits of unfinished business. One of which is to look back at a little incident from the campaign in Luton South during last year’s general election. Just before polling day for I asked on this blog the question “Is someone using Twitter for dirty tricks in Luton South?“. This referred to the use of a Twitter account named ‘lutonliberal‘, by someone we in the local party had never heard of,…
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Luton South on Twitter
I’ve set up a list of the Twitter accounts of candidates and others involved in the general election campaign in the Luton South constituency. http://twitter.com/andymstrange/luton-south If you spot any I’ve missed you can suggest them by commenting to this post. The Twitter hashtag for Luton South is #LutonS (taken from this list http://bit.ly/GE2010). Source: This content was originally posted on my old Strange Thoughts blog.
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Luton South is a key seat according to Twitter
Luton South will be a key seat in the general election if an analysis of the activity associated with it on Twitter is correct. The people behind the political ‘tweet’ aggregator Tweetminster are conducting an experiment to see whether “activity on Twitter correlates to electoral success”. They explain their experiment like this; “Our inspiration for this experiment comes from last year’s General Election in Japan, when a group of software engineers and PhD graduates from…
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Twitter
I have finally given in to something that I have been trying to avoid for a long time. Unconvinced by certain evangalists that it was the solution to almost everything and with a contrary desire to avoid following the herd I thought I could stay away from it indefinately. I was naive. It’s powerful pull was too strong. Yes, I have signed up to Twitter. You can find me at: http://twitter.com/andymstrange To be fair I…
