Mark Blevis

If our Government was determined by the distribution of actively Twittering MPs, the House of Commons would be a very different place. The Liberals would have a very tenuous minority, a small group of MPs would be engaged in the debate while others called out every now and then, and one would be repeating a lot of what was being said.

That’s a fun way of summarizing the findings in my white paper, House of Tweets: Twitter and the House of Commons, a research project I undertook as part of my work in digital public affairs at Fleishman-Hillard.

The report examines the make up of the House of Commons based on active use of Twitter by MPs, which MPs are applying their innate network building skills to social networks and what our federal politicians can do to become more engaged with their constituents.

You can read more and download a copy of the report at PoliticalView.ca.