Describe your idea:
Tweet Your MP is essentially a Twitter and Google maps mashup that sends a tweet on your political views to the increasing number of MPs on twitter – the fast growing real-time social media phenomenon. If your MP is not on twitter a request will be sent to their inbox recommending they join the movement. Inspired by http://www.whoonearthcares.com
What problem does it solve?:
Engage the public through social media and develop interest in the political system. Discover trending political topics at the heart of public opinion. Follow new local and national tweeters who share similar views. Decide if you agree or disagree with suggested legislation, plans and policy implementation. Receive a direct tweet from your local MP. “Share your opinion with your local MP and community”.
Type of idea: A brand new project
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September 18th, 2009 at 11:55am
Have you seen: http://www.tweetminster.co.uk?
September 18th, 2009 at 1:51pm
Thanks Alice,
Tweetminster is nice but it’s simply a stream of MPs tweets.
Here’s what it doesn’t do:
1. Show what users are tweeting to their politicians about
2. Allow users to tweet on recent/proposed policies – hence create trending topics
3. Allow users to follow other twitterers with similar political view points
4. Has a very limited user interface http://tweetcongress.org does a much better job overall.
Any disclaimers I should know about Alice :-)
September 21st, 2009 at 10:00am
No disclaimers, just a fan of not re-inventing the wheel :)
http://tweetminster.co.uk/livewire does 1) and 2).
I don’t know what plans tweetminster has, but am sure more features are in the plans.