Based on a article of Syed Jaymal Zahiid (2010) reported that Twitter is the current main source of political news rather than blogs. Syed Jaymal Zahiid (2010) again stated that Facebook and Twitter have seen to lead the increase of visitors compared to blogs. Grant Gross (2006) found out that Henry Copeland who is the president and the founder of Blogads saying that people are participants and they are not consumers when dealing with politics. Grant Gross (2006) again emphasized that the social networking are creating members day by day which are more than CNN.com or NYTimes.com and this can show that politician who do not agree that the social networking can really help to increases the number of potential voters. Politicians tend to use Twitter nowadays is because that there is direct communication with each other. For example, citizens and politicians can discuss and share the news about politics and democracy unlike blogging there is no instant feedback which shows that Twitter can be so much more interesting. This can also be supported by Big Pond News (2010) reported that politician use twitter for election because there is interaction and politicians can be followed by many tweeters in one day as like Prime Minister Kevin Rudd followed by more than 900000 tweeters almost everyday.Big Pond News (2010) also reported that Twitter can use for political discourse because it is more personalized to interact with one by one without needing to filter who should be involve or who should not be involve. Overall, I can see that social networking is currently famous even it is use for politics. This can eventually bring to political discourse because there is interaction and it is interesting to involve with politics using Twitter. By using Twitter, politicians can tweet the main issues or problems using Twitter to let citizen know the direct information about politics and this can also make audience to voice out their problems directly so that politicians can solve it together with them to develop a better country to achieve audience's expectation of country.
References
Big Pond News 2010, Politician use Twitter for election, viewed 12 November 2010,
http://bigpondnews.com/articles/Politics/2010/02/19/Politicians_use_Twitter_for_election_430679.html
Gross, G 2010, Social Networking Site: The next big thing in politics, viewed 12 November 2010, http://www.infoworld.com/t/architecture/social-networking-sites-next-big-thing-in-politics-307
Zahiid, S.J 2010, Blogging is so yesterday, politicians turn to Twitter, The Malaysian Insider, 11 February 2010.
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