"Greens, Labour and the Soc Dems have all stopped using the social media platform, while Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and Sinn Féin continue to use it"
"'politicians should leave tweeting to the birds'"
"The problem with the twittering politician, he wrote, is that the speed of the system 'tempts them to dash out one-liners with no thought or consideration'"
Greens, Labour and the Soc Dems have all stopped using the social media platform, while Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and Sinn Féin continue to use it. In 2010 many public figures openly embraced Twitter. Willie O'Dea cautioned that 'politicians should leave tweeting to the birds.' He wrote that the problem with the twittering politician is that the speed of the system 'tempts them to dash out one-liners with no thought or consideration.' That caution links rapid social media tempo to risks of careless political messaging and helps explain differing party choices about platform use.
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