The Prime Minister’s wife, Sarah Brown, has overtaken Stephen Fry as the top high-profile Tweeter. Though she is still short of musician Lily Allen.
The Guardian reported that the number of followers keeping up with Brown’s tweets amounts to almost five times the entire Labour party membership.
Research by the University of Plymouth found:
- Gender – women MPs are more likely to tweet. While they compose just 19.4% of the Commons they make up 29.4% of tweeters.
- Party – Labour has 54.2% of all MPs, and provides 66.7% of tweeting MPs. The Liberal Democrats have only 9.8% of all MPs, but provide 17.6% of all tweeting MPs. The Conservatives have 29.8% of all MPs, but provide only 11.8% of tweeting MPs.
- Portfolio – 43.1% of tweeting MPs are either Government Ministers or Official Opposition spokespersons.
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Is she to the left of Brown like Cherie is to the left of Tony? There’s something about that isn’t there?
Maybe something to do with the fact she doesn’t actually have to rule.
She is cool though, in a robust way.
@SarahBrown10 now UK’s top Tweeter
by Chris Barnyard
September 25, 2009 at 2:06 pmThe Prime Minister’s wife, Sarah Brown, has overtaken Stephen Fry as the top high-profile Tweeter. Though she is still short of musician Lily Allen.
Um… Am I missing something, or does the fact that she is still short of Lily Allen mean that she is the UK’s second top tweeter? Don’t want to detract from such an achievement, but still…
Yes, whatever can be said about Lily Allen, denying she’s “high profile” is fairly difficult.
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