Saturday 23 August 2014

AUGUST PARTY POLITICAL CYBER WARRIORS

 It is true that part of the next General Election will be fought on Social media. It is I think the best way of getting a message across in an instant and is as you want it to be and not warped by media outlets. It can though be dangerous. How do you control every single member of your party? One wrong set of words, a late night drink and an open social media account and it could all end in tears.

Now the figures below are over a 6 week period due to a break I have had from the blog. It is difficult to say how much of some parties growth is down to bought in followers and likes and actual growth. Has the Conservative party really gained 20 thousand likes? If you look down even the smaller parties like the Patriotic Socialist Party have made a gain of over 7 thousand likes. Sometimes people think that a lot of followers or support must mean your message has more validity. Does it? Lets see what the future brings but here are the figures for August.

As a side note the most surprising feature is that UKIP which had seen good growth actually lost followers on Twitter, this is normally a sign of paid for followers unfollowing. Maybe / maybe not. But will the trend continue and will we see the same with the Conservatives?

Be interested in your thoughts.

as of August 23rd 11.45 am

PARTY TWITTER ACCOUNTAUGUSTS FOLLOWERSJULYS FOLLOWERSDIFFERENCE +/-
@UKLabour 148,558144,0344,524
117,908115,0362,872
68,98866,8622,126
67,02664,5922,434
62,63462,664-30
60,08657,4732,613
36,21534,1212,094
15.09914,976123
10,1669,913253
10,0649,848216
7,4356,908527
4,013n/an/a
3,6813,61665
3,3803,280100
3,0082,93672
2,2932,318-25
2,1312,1283
@Official_MRLP 63260131

BIGGEST GAINERS


Labour 4,524
Conservatives 2,872
NHA PARTY 2,613
Greens 2,434
Liberal Democrats 2,126
SNP 2,094


FACEBOOK LIKES (when over 100,000 it is stated in thousands  1k)




PARTY FACEBOOK PAGEAUGUSTS LIKESJULYS LIKESDIFFERENCE +/-
CONSERVATIVES255K235K20K
UKIP 237K229K8K
LABOUR184K179K5K
LIB DEMS 102K99K3K
THE GREEN PARTY76K72K4K
SNP63,50055K8,500
THE REALITY PARTY20,585n/an/a
NHA PARTY12,17111,987184
LOONY PARTY11,96211,985-23
PIRATE PARTY UK 9,5479,50641
PLAID CYMRU 9,4979,109388
PATRIOTIC SOCIALIST PARTY 9,1411,5707,571
RESPECT PARTY 1,3101,3055
MEBYON KERNOW 1.0441,02420

BIGGEST GAINERS 

CONSERVATIVES 20K
SNP 8.5K
UKIP 8K
PARIOTIC SOCIALIST PARTY 7,571 
LABOUR 5K
GREEN PARTY 4K
LIBDEMS 3K


You can see past political charts by following the link

http://ukgeneralelection2015.blogspot.co.uk/p/political-pop-chart.html

1 comment:

  1. Am I alone in seeing the sudden surge in Patriotic Socialist Party likes suspicious? If you look at their page their posts have very few likes or comments...

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