Which MEPs are Twittering? I know a few…
March 19, 2009
Following on from our digital audit of MEPS last year, we now want to know which MEPs have caught the Twitter bug…
These are just a few we’ve found so far:
- Graham Watson
- Matthias Groote
- Katrin Saks
- Benoit Hamon
- Eoin Ryan
- Neena Gill
- Arlene McCarthy
- Peter Skinner
- Jim Nicholson
- Mary Honeyball
- Andrew Duff
- Daniel Caspary
- Jules Maaten
- Jeanine Hennis
- Sophie in ‘t Veld
- Daniel Cohn-Bendit
- Åsa Westlund
- Anna Hedh
- Kathalijne Buitenweg
- Helga Truepel
- Colm Burke
- Joost Lagendijk
- Gunnar Hökmark
- Dagmar Roth-Behrendt
- Alexander Alvaro
- Jorgo Chatzimarkakis
- Richard Corbett
- Ed McMillan-Scott
- Rodi Kratsa
- Vincent Peillon
- Urszula Gacek
- Jean luc Bennahmias
- Catherine Trautmann
- Bernadette Vergnaud
If you have come across any, please let us know. We shall update this list as we get new names.
Rosie
P.S. As we mentioned in a previous post, the utility of Twitter is still not clear to us. We do find Daily Show host John Stewart’s opinion about Twitter quite humorous: “They’re struggling because they confused new with good.”
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1. Cedric | March 19, 2009 at 6:19 pm
There is also Daniel Cohn-Bendit: http://twitter.com/danycohnbendit
2. Jon Worth | March 19, 2009 at 6:27 pm
Åsa Westlund – http://twitter.com/asawestlund
Anna Hedh – http://twitter.com/AnnaHedh
Kathalijne Buitenweg – http://twitter.com/kathalijne
Helga Truepel – http://twitter.com/HelgaTruepel
3. Stephen | March 19, 2009 at 11:16 pm
Colm Burke (FG/EPP) http://twitter.com/ColmBurkeMEP
4. krispijn | March 19, 2009 at 11:34 pm
Would be good to have a site with all their tweets on it.
For your list:
Joost Lagendijk
http://twitter.com/joostlagendijk
Judith … (GroenLinks)
http://twitter.com/judithineuropa
5. fhknobby | March 20, 2009 at 3:52 pm
Thanks to Cedric, Jon, Stephen, and Krispijn for sending extra Twittering MEPs – we’ve updated the list.
Please do keep’em coming!
Rob
6. fhbrussels | March 22, 2009 at 4:46 pm
Krispijn,
Thanks for the idea – we think we’ve cracked it and you’ll now find a feed of all the MEP Tweets on our blog’s sidebar.
As we see more MEPs a-twittering we shall of course add them.
James
7. Martin | March 23, 2009 at 12:03 pm
Dagmar Roth-Behrendt: http://twitter.com/DRothBehrendt
8. Daniela | March 26, 2009 at 12:11 am
http://twitter.com/richardcorbett
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11. Xavier | May 20, 2009 at 4:01 pm
You can find them all (plus de candidates to the EU elections) on http://europatweets.eu
(you can browse them by country and political group and even get a widget displaying their latest tweets in real time on your blog! )
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