The Trend Of Politicians on Twitter is an Bad Thin or Not ?
are politicians using social media personal and politics used. Also I will discuss if its positive as many
negative scandals has come up wish has destroy many politicians careers therefore I ask my self is this
social networking site an self inflicted time bomb for politicians , as there behavior on twitter will be analyze
and Judge.
Did you know the most powerful Politicians like President Barack Obama , Prime minster David Cameron , Deputy Prime minster Nick Clegg and MP Shashi Tharoor from India are members and use twitter
regularly. Its well know that the current president Barack Obama use social networking site in the US american election in 2008 to help him push him in to office for example Mr Barack Obama used Facebook in 2008 not just engage with voters and push his then unknow campaign literature as well as bring attention to his Youtube channel , and this said to be the main factor which help Obama enter the white house at the time it was very different and rare this was one the biggest developments in american politics.
Many people including myself agree e- democracy is the way forward when it comes engaging people to get involve in politics especially my generation as we all know young people really don't care or have interested in politics. for example according to article from the BBC young people don't trust politicians or parties in this article contains figure which shows research that ''found there was a sharp drop in 18 to 24 year old voter turnout at the 2001 general election , it has been low ever since and spiked only slightly at the most recent election in 2010 even though it was a very close contest''.http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/18727320
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I believe social media like networking sites like Twitter and Facebook has play a big role in allowing politics and politicians to relate and reach the average person and also its made me personally feel that politicians are regular people even if they come across like spoilt brats however that view has changed now. Also I realize that they are many advantages that social media do which makes politics for me more understandable and closer like for example the advantages of politics working with social media is polls such as when politicians are debating new topics twitter has increasing become one of the best ways to take a look at the reaction of the general public like you can tweet an topic which instanly can been see by many people at once.
In addition where living in an time where soical media in polictis is very useful as the consequences of soical media in polictics is according Adam Conner manager for public policy in Facebook DC office and US elections social media Strategist , he states '' Social media puts pressure on government almost to the point of removing civil society /NGO s and mainstream media from the debate. Informing the great unwashed masses directly is by far the best method to keep both traction and momentum with any policy.''http://www.debatingeurope.eu/2013/01/22/how-is-social-media-changing-politics/
However many may agure that since politicians started using twitter and other soical networking sites they have embrassed themselves to who new level and it has ended in them losing the carreers and respect and diginty. For example over the years politicians have been involved soical networking sites scandals therefore many people may say that soical networking sites like twitter are like forbidden fruit to an politicans as US politicans like Meg Whitman's , Anthony Weiner Lewd and UK policticans like Lord McAlpine who was rumored to be an child abuser on twitter. So the question I ask myself is soical networking sites are seen as the way politics can reach the common person as politicians trying show them selves as odinary people why do most of them draw in embrassing themselves on soical media site .?
