The explanation for this relatively high number of tweets by Diederik Samsom lies on July 13 and 14. On average, he sent about 20 tweets per day, but on these two days together he sent – for unknown reasons – more than 200 messages. In doing so, he actively engaged with the supporters and the changes in incomes and the year 2035 were discussed most often.
Selection of messages Diederik Samsom online monitoring OBI4wan webcare
What tone do the party leaders use?
Unfortunately, we can say little about sentiment. The majority of messages that our politicians send via Twitter are neutral in tone. A few messages are positive or negative, with Arie Slob generally being the most positive. He sent 51 positive messages since January 6 of this year. Henk Krol is in second place with 33 positive messages. The most negative tweets came from Diederik Samsom, who sent 60 negative messages. In proportion, this is relatively few, as he sent more than 2,500 messages in total.
Sentiment of party leaders online monitoring webcare OBI4wan
Interaction with colleagues
In all messages written by the party leaders, @mariannethieme is mentioned most often. In the first half of 2013, she was mentioned no less than 83 times in messages from others. @henkkrol , @staatsbosbeheer @estherouwehand and @apechtold are also mentioned regularly. These are also the politicians who most often engage in conversation with each other. Only @staatsbosbeheer is the odd one out in this list, as this is not an account of a politician.
Mentions faction leaders online monitoring OBI4wan
Interaction with the supporters
When we delve deeper into the interaction between party leaders and their supporters, it turns out that Diederik Samsom in particular uses Twitter very actively for this purpose. He has responded to 2688 mentions since 1 January 2013. He does this with an average response time of 29 minutes, which is very fast compared to the other party leaders.
Alexander Pechtold, Marianne Thieme and Arie Slob also actively engage in interaction. With around 600 reactions to mentions, we can say that they are relatively active in engaging in conversation via Twitter. There are three politicians who did not respond to any of the mentions; these are Geert Wilders, Halbe Zijlstra and Sybrand van Haersma Buma.
To put these figures into perspective, it is good to know that Diederik Samsom, for example, has been mentioned more than 95,000 times in the past six months. In relative terms, he responds to less than 3% of all mentions. In this respect, Arie Slob does best, with a response percentage of around 4.5%.
Responses to mentions and average response time of party leaders online spain mobile phone number list monitoring OBI4wan webcare
in this case the absolute numbers give a better picture than the response percentage.
Conclusion: Diederik Samsom is most active on Twitter
Based on this analysis, we can conclude that Diederik Samsom is the most active politician on Twitter. In 2013, he sent the most messages and interacted with his supporters the most. Halbe Zijlstra and Sybrand van Haersma Buma are the party leaders who do the least with Twitter.
Personally, I think this is a waste. As a representative of the people, it is very important to listen to your supporters and to interact. Twitter is a very suitable and accessible tool for this, which is increasingly used by an ever broader group of people.
Whether it has a positive effect on the starting position during the upcoming elections, I dare not say. What I am personally convinced of is that Diederik Samsom in this way creates a more personal bond with his followers than party leaders who use Twitter less actively. With that, he could well increase his chances of votes in the upcoming elections.