A Twitter feed for politicians has payoffs as well as drawbacks unless you have a social following

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Does Twitter do more harm than good for politicians?

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Since the successful utilisation of social media by Obama during his 2008 presidential campaign, politicians from around the world have jumped on the social bandwagon in an attempt to prove their cool.  That very few of these accounts are actually popular.