Most Tweets by an MP:
National: Simon O’Connor 82, Jo Goodhew 22, Chris Bishop 20.
Labour: Clare Curran 129, Trevor Mallard 77, Phil Twyford 26.
Greens: Russel Norman 100, Kevin Hague 86, James Shaw 60.
NZF: Tracey Martin 12, Clayton, Darroch Ball and Richard Prosser 3.
Others: Marama Fox 299, Peter Dunne 61, David Seymour 59.
In the past I have called Labour and the Internet Party on their questionable use of other organisations intellectual property. Well it looks like some organisations still haven’t learnt. This morning the Taxpayers Union released a report on the government’s “corporate welfare” policies. They sent three tweets:
This is the first in a series of posts. I am going to look at each party that is in Parliament, who has more than one MP, and lay out what my suggestions for the next three years would be for the party and their MPs.
As I pointed out yesterday in my blog about Te Ururoa’s Facebook post on his thoughts about becoming a Minister, Te Ururoa and Marama have a big task ahead of them this term. In 2014 they got around the same number of raw votes as they did in 2011, but because of the higher turn out, they lost around 0.11%. They lost two seats that they held, but managed to retain one. However for the first time they have managed to bring in a list MP.
Hone Harawira applied for a judicial recount in Te Tai Tokerau following the release of the final results on Saturday. The result came out today. I suspect the result wasn’t what Hone was hoping for. Kelvin Davis’s majority increased by 4. Made up of 2 more votes for him and two less for Hone. However, what I want to talk about is how the media have covered the story. Or more precisely how they have worded their tweets about it.
Tweeting links to new content is a key part of any online news organisations marketing system. I know that there are plenty of articles that I come across from following the accounts of news organisations, or people retweeting content from them. It is the modern version of standing at the water cooler and asking co-workers if they had read something in this mornings paper. Now obviously they are going to be space limited in their tweets, especially if they are going to include a link and an image. But that does not excuse sloppy headline/tweet writing.
I have seen four tweets about the result of the recount, RadioLive, NewsTalkZB, The Herald and Stuff.
Andrew Little throws his hat into the ring for the Labour leadership election and gets a pretty obvious reply.
Though, it must be pointed out that this is the first time in over 3 weeks that Andrew has tweeted anything.
