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MPs Moving Forward

It's been a long time coming, but MPs are finally recognising social media as a strong way to communicate with their constituents as party leaders are to conduct Q&A sessions on YouTube and Facebook...

What the research shows...

Facebook already plays a central role in much of this generation's campaigning. 83% of candidates asked are using Facebook in their campaigns, while 50% use Twitter in the same way.

Significantly, a massive 84% of future MPs also intend to use social networking tools such as Facebook, Twitter and blogs to communicate with their constituents if they are elected to the House of Commons.

Some 82% of candidates also said that once they were an MP they would treat communications from constituents received through social media such as Twitter and Facebook with the same priority as those received by letter or email.

So everyone will have the chance to be heard... or should that be 'read'?!