Why Twitter is Basically Awesome

So this is my first proper post on the Manchester Labour Students Blog. My plan was for it to be insightful, thought providing, witty and clever...screw that, let’s talk about why Twitter is awesome.

I’m not going to tell you what Twitter is: if you don’t know, you can google it. What I do want to tell you is why Twitter might help you want to get involved with Manchester Labour Students. This post is really for you members that haven’t quite made the leap of being active. Twitter can help you want to become an activist; Twitter can help you get to know some of us.

There are five of us on the exec that tweet: Richard, Mel, Jonty, Rob and myself. The other four keep us all updated about what they are up to and what funny or stupid thing just happened around them: I tweet to avoid getting any work done. We all tweet different amounts and about different things but what we all like to do is have a natter. What you won’t ever see is any of us being anything other than genuine and personable.

That’s the fun, personal side of it. Meeting people you know from twitter is always easy: the ice has already been broken. So if you’re unsure if you want to come to one of our campaign days, political debates or even one of our meetings then chat to some of us on twitter and find out for sure.

Generally though, Twitter is starting to make a serious impact politically. Two issues this week, promoted primarily by people tweeting about them, have made national news. So if you didn't know about this and/or this...where have you been?

After following me, Richard, Mel, Jonty and Rob on twitter you've got to follow Kerry McCarthy who is the Labour Party's twitter Tsar (that isn't her official title, but her official one doesn't have alliteration).

Cheers!