Aotearoa’s politicians, politics obsessives and journalists all use Twitter heaps, but does the platform matter as much as it feels like it matters? So how much impact does Twitter really have on MPs and real-world politics? Even reluctant Tweeter Seymour admits that the platform “does serve a role as a means of rapid communication to reporters”. “What Twitter does well is that it doesn’t try to be for everyone,” Cooke says. New Zealand’s politics Twitter might not be a gladiatorial political arena where policy fights policy, gasping and bloody.

Source: Stuff November 17, 2021 22:26 UTC