Last night, as I was heading into see Four Lions, I noticed a certain @ed_miliband hovering around on Twitter. I thought I’d pitch a couple of issues that have been concerning me since Labour’s defeat at him. Here’s our exchange:
Pretty good answers actually. A few weeks ago, Bill Gates said that he wasn’t originally drawn to Facebook because of its asymmetric character. In other words, he as an individual would be required to devote more to his Facebook friends than they would be to him. That was resolved by the creation of ‘fan pages.’ Twitter likewise is more symmetrical. However, it will end up being asymmetrical so Ed will have to manage his tweeting moments carefully. But good for him for engaging and I hope people are understanding when he can’t reply to everyone.
As I argued on Friday the test for the new Labour leader is how they can create an authentic new politics of engagement. It’s clearly on Ed’s mind too. Now he just needs to start telling Labour some things that it doesn’t want to hear…..which his launch speech yesterday was short of. One step at a time….
Sun, May 16, 2010
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