Comments on Tory Bear - right-wing political gossip: Why Tweetminster is Wrong - #tweetgate

That dude looks like the son of Jaws

2010-01-28T17:10:51.784Z

That dude looks like the son of Jaws

From Tweetminster's reply: "We are not f...

2010-01-28T13:44:43.509Z

From Tweetminster's reply:

"We are not funded by Politics Direct - tip: companies house can tell you this."

What is the Company number?

Surely I can't be the only one to think this t...

2010-01-28T13:14:51.820Z

Surely I can't be the only one to think this twittering & tweeting is pathetic? I can quite understand the attraction of facebook & friends reunited (my URL) but little inane comments posted by rather sad people seems soppy in the extreme.

Of course, the other issue is that following Labou...

2010-01-28T13:04:35.518Z

Of course, the other issue is that following Labour on Twitter doesn't necessarily make you a Labour supporter.

I follow them on Twitter. I like to know my enemy.

I am pleased that, after several years in the onli...

2010-01-28T09:55:58.689Z

I am pleased that, after several years in the online wilderness, Labour is finally getting its act together.

The Tweetminster report underscores what has become conventional wisdom in the last six months or so - that the broad left probably have the edge on Twitter.

But if there's any hysteria and lack of perspective on this it seems to be coming from right wing bloggers (see for example) aggrieved that the left are beginning to make inroads: "Labour are saying they TOTALLY DOMINATE Twitter and are going to WIN THE ELECTION because of it but that's crap because..."

After years of crowing and statporn from right wing bloggers, I'm sure you would permit your friends on the left a momentary smile (it's going to be a long election).

But don't fret, TB, you guys still get more hits than us.

;-)

Presumably Tweeting is a sufficient opportunity to...

2010-01-28T09:38:53.096Z

Presumably Tweeting is a sufficient opportunity to expound Labour's theories and push forward their policies

Interestingly, if you have a closed group of 350 t...

2010-01-28T08:50:24.560Z

Interestingly, if you have a closed group of 350 twitterers, such that each person is followed only by the 349 others, then by the methods used by tweetminster you would say that those 350 people are collectively follwed by 122,150 people (350 x 349).

Oh, dear. More lying for the cause? The left, for...

2010-01-28T07:43:56.928Z

Oh, dear. More lying for the cause?

The left, for all their claims, don't really seems to have even started to get the new age of information, do they? Making stuff up and trusting to luck that nobody will find out doesn't work very well, these days. Too many people out there who can spot the lie and then bring it to the attention of a wider audience.

'10,000 followers and 40,000 (presumably uniqu...

2010-01-28T01:05:45.146Z

'10,000 followers and 40,000 (presumably unique?) page views per month.' Care to tell us what TB.com's equivalent figures are?

New expansion for Twitter. Now its possible to per...

2010-01-27T23:20:28.276Z

New expansion for Twitter. Now its possible to personalise it.

Prescott - Fritter
Miliband - Titter
Mandelson - Quitter
Watson - Hitter
Brown - Bitter
Blair - Dollar

It's just Twitter... Never been a big fan of ...

2010-01-27T22:16:36.996Z

It's just Twitter...

Never been a big fan of it, genuinely don't get the point.

Tweetminster's reply https://tweetminster.co.uk...

2010-01-27T21:21:18.977Z

Tweetminster's reply https://tweetminster.co.uk/posts/view/356423372

A hundred grand of funding has bought them les...

2010-01-27T20:32:32.403Z
A hundred grand of funding has bought them less than ten thousand followers on Twitter

Fewer! Sorry, I know my grammar isn't always up to scratch but the mistake between 'less' and 'fewer' always bugs me.

I read somewhere today that Twitter is going out o...

2010-01-27T20:00:57.793Z
I read somewhere today that Twitter is going out of fashion; the number of users is apparently falling. Just like Labour to jump on a band-wagon as everyone else is jumping off!