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Her Majesty's Government on Twitter.
The Downing Street website today published the full list of her Majesty’s Government
We thought it would be helpful to list those that are on Twitter:
Deputy Prime Minister - @nick_clegg
Secretary of State for Foreign & Commonwealth Affairs - @WilliamJHague
Minister of State (at Ministry of Justice & Home Office) - @NickHerbertMP
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Home Office) - @JBrokenshire
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Equalities) - @lfeatherstone
Minister for the Armed Forces - @NickHarveyND
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Ministry of Defence) - @geraldhowarth
Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills - @vincecable
Minister of State (BIS) - @markprisk
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (BIS) - @eddaveykands
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (BIS & DCMS) - @edvaizey
Minister of State (Department Work and Pensions) - @stevewebb1
Secretary of State of Energy and Climate Change - @chrishuhne
Minister of State (Department of Health) - @paulburstow
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Education) - @timloughton
Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government - @ericpickles
Minister of State (DCLG) - @grantshapps
Minister of State (Department for International Development) - @AlanDuncan4MP
Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sports - @jeremy_hunt
Secretary of State for Scotland - @dannyalexander
Parliamentary Under secretary of State (Scotland) - @davidmundelldct
Parliamentary Under secretary of State (Wales) - @davidjonesmp
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office) - @nickhurdmp
Whips, Junior Lords of Treasury & Assistant Whips - @acarmichael4mp ; @mike_fabricant ; @jamesduddridge ; @normanlamb
Posted at Thu, May 20th 2010, 11:26
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Tweetminster Predicts - findings
Tweetminster Predicts: Findings
Posted at Wed, May 12th 2010, 07:00
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Tweetminster Predicts - a hung parliament
Today we’re releasing the final set of ‘Tweetminster Predicts’ figures, our experiment in predictive modelling that studies the correlation between buzz on Twitter and election results. The model looks at the most mentioned candidate in each of the constituencies represented on Twitter (full details of the methodology are below).
Our latest figures, based on the 433 constituencies now mentioned on Twitter, don’t show significant changes since last week, with topline figures - CON 35% (nc) LAB 30% (nc) LDEM 27% (+1).
With a UNS, these figures would point to a hung parliament with Labour 45 seats short of a majority.
When we launched our study last month, we outlined several trends in the data, including:
- The Liberal Democrats performing better than polls were showing (they were below 20% then), especially strong in the South West in LibCon marginals
- A decline in SNP support when compared to recent polls and forecasts
- No significant shifts towards Plaid Cymru
- A strong Conservative performance in the East Midlands.
In addition to confirming these trends, the latest set of data also points to:
- Growing support for the Conservatives in Wales
- The high likelihood of Caroline Lucas winning in Brighton Pavilion
- Esther Rantzen winning in Luton South
- While as expected several Labour seats will swing to the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats, the data suggests that a few will swing the other way too.
This week we are also releasing predictions for 266 constituencies around which significant buzz has been generated over the past month:
We have also updated the paper of the study:
Following the election we will publish the complete findings of the study. The final set of predictions will also be uploaded to our site shortly.
Posted at Wed, May 5th 2010, 08:00
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Help us map voter turnout on May 6th
On May 6th millions of people across the county will head to the polling booths to cast their vote. Tens of thousands of them use Twitter. Tweetminster, Channel 4, The Guardian and the New Statesman are teaming up to map the day’s action and we need your help.
On May 6th, when you head out to vote, tweet #ukvote alongside the first half of your post code (for example #ukvote SE1) and we will plot votes in real time on a map.
We’re not asking you to include who you’re voting for - that’s a secret you don’t need to share.
The map and data will be made available online and anyone will be able to easily add it to their site. We will also showcase a regional breakdown of turnout.
The goal of the experiment is to inspire more people to vote and to help get a sense of turnout (on Twitter at least) during the course of the day and across the country.
The experiment is inspired by a similar initiative around the hashtag #uksnow.
We’ll tweet a reminder ahead of the big day. In the mean time, thanks for your help!
Posted at Mon, May 3rd 2010, 13:10
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