Why David, Nick and Ed SHOULDN’T do Twitter #MPfails

Woah! It looks like the announcement of the Budget has definitely caused more than a ripple on the Twittersphere- it has caused a mountainous wave! Unfortunately yet unsurpisingly it looks as though Nick Clegg and Ed Miliband have borne most of the brunt and disappointment. So of course we were going to take the opportunity to see just how our political leaders do or don’t do the most unforgiving platform ever- TWITTER, what we found was quite simply hilarious!

Read on chaps.

Prime Minister David Cameron- @David_Cameron

Well he did say ‘too many tweets make a t**t,’ funny that- because despite being a latecomer to Twitter, out of the 3, David Cameron tweets the least and yet has the greatest follower base at 628,000 and suavely only  follows some 300 + accounts.

Now this brief overview doesn’t mean that David has nailed the Twitter world just because he looks to be fairing better than Nick and Ed. In fact we think Dave has still got a thing or two to learn about Twitter especially if he wants to stop putting himself in the centre of twitter spoofs. Which ones  we hear you ask? Well this is going to be fun, remember the serious selfie to the US President Barrack Obama.

 

Well it’s pretty obvious that David thought it would impress the Twitter public to know that he has a ‘direct line’ to the White House but unfortunately it looks like the selfie backfired and that too quite badly as we can see with the following…

We’d like to think that David’s learnt his lesson with that ‘serious selfie’ but if not, well let’s face it we wouldn’t be all that surprised. 

Nick Clegg @Nick_Clegg

Let’s be honest, Twitter has never really been that kind to the Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg. The number of profiles set up purely to mock poor old Nick is funny yes, but at the same time also very telling about his popularity or rather his lack of on the Twittersphere.

Out of the 3 leaders, Nick has the smallest following of 158,000, especially small when compared to ‘his coalition buddy’ David’s 628,000. One word we think sums it up nicely is- embarrassing. But it seems that poor old Nick is forever trying to please, you’d only have to look at the 28,400 accounts that he follows to draw a pretty fair conclusion that all he wants is to be heard and more than anything liked.

Well we think first things first, it’d probably be an idea to clear up that following, and judging by the Deputy Prime Minister’s somewhat saucy Twitter past, it’s fair to say some thought on social media strategy wouldn’t go a miss.

But before we go on, it looks as though Nick’s people have got the situation under control- we can officially report Nick Clegg is no longer following the above

Ed Miliband @Ed_Miliband

Oh dear Ed, your Parliamentary speech on the Budget this week hasn’t gone down all that well on Twitter with the general consensus being that the Labour Leader is not ready to run the country…EVER. Ouch.

The only glimmer of hope for Ed is that he’s got a stronger following than Nick Clegg with 298,000 and is only following a good 1000 + accounts, again, no where near Nick’s massive 28,000 (who knows what’s in that following pool right).

But back to Ed’s somewhat controversial Twitter history. So being the Labour Leader- a party that prides itself on upholding the pillars of multiculturalism and equality, one would naturally expect a little care and attention when tweeting. Clearly not, given Ed Miliband’s epic fail honouring Bob Holness- the host of the 80’s cult show BLOCKbusters- emphasis on BLOCK.

We will say only this, the gaffe came a day after a pretty heated debate in Parliament about race. Not the best look Ed.

JBi take

Our post may have been spurred on by the announcement of the Budget earlier this week and of course International Happiness Day- so really we just couldn’t help ourselves. But on a more serious note, given that a poll carried out by think tank IPSOS Moris in 2013 found that a huge 80% of us don’t trust our politicians, we’ve come to a pretty solid conclusion through our research that if politicians can do social media they should and if they can’t they shouldn’t. It really is simple as that, there’s a lot at stake, creditability included! And again what was that Cameron said?