MPs pay little attention to Twitter women

[rowdywoman1]

For the twitterati (is that a word?) amongst us: the Times has investigated who MPs follow on Twitter and predictably - it's men!

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-twitter-gap-99-of-mps-follow-more-men-than-women-g320mqr6z?shareToken=ae63e820b569fc8fef815e6542a87d32

hear about this a while ago, probably on Radio four... something about bias...

good that The Times followed it up.

I never thought I’d say this, but I may have to start paying for The Times.

Really interesting but I wonder if it's down the fact that on Twitter you tend you "follow back" people who follow you, so I wouldn't be surprised if the twitter accounts are following back mostly males because it's mostly males who go to follow MPs.

It's shocking that some of them are only following their male MP colleagues though!

(I just analysed my own twitter and 3.3% of those i'm following are male )

this plus the way that blocks have being used may explain a great deal about how certain narratives have been absorbed and strengthened...

I'm shocked, shocked I tell you.