Yatterbox Bridging Politics to the Voters with Social Media

Freckleton’s idea was to create a website that presents the information from every social media account for every politician in the UK. By the time he got round to building and launching the site in mid-February 2011, they had missed the UK General Election. But that didn’t really matter as he knew that the next few years would be very interesting with the new coalition government in power.

“We first dreamed up the idea back in May 2010 during the UK General Election after stumbling upon a few websites that were aggregating Twitter accounts for all the UK MPs. Back then there were only about 180+ out of the total of 650 MPs using Twitter, so it was quite a niche thing to do. However we also knew that MPs were using more than just Twitter; they had set up Facebook Pages, were uploading photos and videos and also pushing out more traditional blogs.

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