More than 100 Members of Parliament are using Twitter to communicate with voters, a survey suggests. Tweetminster, which monitors politicians' use of Twitter said more now used it than wrote their own blogs. It found that, of 111 MPs tweeting, 65 were Labor, 23 were Liberal Democrats and 16 were Conservatives, according to an article published on BBC News. Conservatives were "more effective at distributing their message from the top", but "less so" at grassroots level.
Labour, on the other hand, has the "opposite challenge". Its supporters "drive conversations, yet the official line doesn't strategically trickle down", the report adds. Labour MPs had more than 90.000 followers, Lib Dem more than 20.000 and Conservatives around 20.000.
Conservative leader David Cameron said he had no plans to start tweeting: "You need to use all methods of communication... The only problem I have is that politicians spend so much time talking, and giving speeches and giving interviews and on blogs and all the rest of it."
