Tag Archives: federal election

Another Update: Twitter and the Federal Election

Well, the federal election Leader's debate on Thursday evening was in the end a rather disappointing affair.   It was essentially a series of thrusts, parries and spins on taxation, housing, immigration, energy, etc…but left out in the entire debate was any fundamental recognition of what I think is a major issue facing the future prosperity […]

Update: Twitter and the Canadian Federal Election

Well it is just over two weeks since I began tracking the number of Twitter followers that each federal party leader has during the course of the current election capmpaign in order to see what the impact of this type of social media presence might be.  All of the party leaders have increased their number […]

Twitter Followers and Canada’s Federal Election

Well, I thought it was time to resurrect an activity I last did a number of years ago – in 2011 – during an Ontario election campaign.  I tracked the number of Twitter followers each party leader had during the course of the election to see if the electoral outcome was correlated with social media […]