Plaid’s twitter influence.
Posted on Tuesday, May 26, 2009 at 4:29pm
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Received this press notice earlier from the Plaid team. I missed the twitterview between Jill Evans MEP and Politics Cymru as I was at the Eisteddfod cutting cake for the Lottery’s 15th birthday celebrations. Well apparently we are the first political party to use such a tool in this election. For those who took part, what was it like? Should we do it again? Let me know…Did it influence you to vote Plaid in the European elections? I hope so!
Press notice
Plaid Cymru – The Party of Wales
Plaid in Twitterview first
When: 2pm, Tuesday 26 May.
Twitterview between Cardiff Journalism School Student – Politics Cymru http://politicscymru.blogspot.com/ and Jill Evans MEP
How to view twitterview
If you’re already on Twitter, just follow @politics_cymru and @europlaid
if not, you can go to http://twitter.com/politics_cymru and http://twitter.com/EuroPlaid
Plaid Cymru will be the first party in Europe to use new technology to reach out to voters in the forthcoming European election with a unique ‘Twitterview’ which takes place at 2pm on Tuesday 26 May.
Lead candidate Jill Evans MEP will answer voters’ questions live on line via the party’s Twitter channel. The party’s European manifesto features a pledge to seek European investment to increase broadband internet access in Wales.
Speaking ahead of the live twitterview, Jill Evans said:
“We want to make this European campaign as open and accessible as possible and this is one great way of doing that.
“Plaid Cymru is committed to increasing the availability of broadband high speed internet across Wales, helping develop our economy and people’s access to information and services.
“I’m really looking forward to this twitterview which as far as we know is a first for a political party in Wales.”
To be precise Politics Cymru used the tool to interview Jill Evans. It has been done before in the London Mayoral elections with the Lib Dem candidate, Brian Paddick. Politics Cymru will be doing it again with the Welsh Liberal Democrats tomorrow. Hardly a unique Plaid initiative!
I think it is a good idea , but really depends on who is twittering and the questions asked. It could have been more rigorous.Jill is the best MEP we have and it didnt show her in-depth knowledge and experience .I felt the questions were a bit dull.
We thoroughly enjoyed being part of it. For anybody who missed it you can read the twitterview in full on the Politics Cymru blog: http://politicscymru.blogspot.com/2009/05/this-just-in-twitterview-with-jill.html