We Are Social People

Italian PM, Silvio Berlusconi, has been using Facebook to trample rumors of his resignation over Italy’s financial situation. Not only does he face criticism over the nations debt but also due to his character and persona in international politics and his own nation that he needs to contend with. Regardless of thoughts and feelings about [...]

Thai Prime Minster Yingluck Shinawatra, has had her personal Twitter account hacked. Bad enough that a head political figure should have her public feed over taken, any politicians worse social media nightmare,  but the hackers then used this as an opportunity to question her competence as Prime Minister for the world to see. One tweet read: [...]

Social networking platform Twitter, have allowed political adverts. Not only are they accepting politically motivated tweets, they even set up an entire team dedicated to monitoring it. The first tweet went out live and was a sponsored tweet by GOP candidate for election, Mitt Romney. Twitter are working with a selected group of politically motivated [...]

The last year has seen few highs but many lows in UK politics. With no party outright winning the 2010 election, we managed to accidently elect a Conservative coalition government with a light sprinkling of Liberal Democrats for fun. The old two party system is dying on us. Political parties are starting to blur, the [...]