Politicians twitter while the country burns. MPs are trying to look in touch by using the latest webtools. But all they reveal is how insecure the political elite has become. (from The Times)
I haven’t read a sufficient numbers of tweets from UK politicians to make a judgment on what they tweet but found the thoughts of the writer muddled, which was exemplified by the psychologist she quoted – “Nobody would Twitter if they had a strong sense of identity.”
I found that an astonishing quote. Twitter is a medium (an online, micro-messaging, networked service) and he appears to think of it as a specific lifestyle based on the way some people use it. I seem to recall people having the same attitude to blogging in its early days. I don’t the article makes a sufficient distinction how some people to use twitter and twitter as a communication tool.
