{"id":76999,"date":"2015-07-07T14:40:40","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T14:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/?p=76999"},"modified":"2015-07-28T14:58:36","modified_gmt":"2015-07-28T14:58:36","slug":"politicians-take-to-twitter-to-make-and-break-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/politicians-take-to-twitter-to-make-and-break-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Politicians take to Twitter to make and break news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Move aside Justin Bieber, Twitter has become a hotbed for political news &#8211;<span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">\u00a0good, bad and controversial. \u00a0Yanis Varoufakis, Greece finance minister and the face of the financial crisis, was the latest to stir up a storm on Twitter yesterday after tendering his resignation on the microblogging platform hours after the nation voted \u2018no\u2019 to austerity. In under 24 hours the \u2018Minister no More!\u2019 tweet generated over 18,000 retweets, 9,000 favourites and trended on Twitter and across news and social media sites .<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Interestingly, it was not just the media that responded to Varoufakis\u2019 announcement, \u00a0Government representatives from countries around the world also took to Twitter to share their news and views on the outspoken finance minister and his brazen approach.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Belgian Fin Min on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Varoufakis?src=hash\">#Varoufakis<\/a> resignation: &#8220;he complicated matters for himself. It wasn&#8217;t nice when he called colleagues terrorists&#8221; (VRT)<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pieter Cleppe (@pietercleppe) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pietercleppe\/status\/617963568135335936\">July 6, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Varoufakis\u2019 tweet linked back to his blog where he explained in more detail the reason behind his decision.<\/p>\n<p>While the shock resignation is still the subject of much debate and speculation, the self-publishing approach used by Varoufakis is not new and is in fact becoming a growing trend among politicians wanting to make a point (which in some cases have backfired on the politician).<\/p>\n<p>From Narendra Modi\u2019s \u2018India has won\u2019 tweet that become the country\u2019s most shared-tweet within moments of his party\u2019s landslide victory in the elections last year, Emily Thornberry\u2019s \u2018Image from #Rochester\u2019 tweet that forced her to resign from Ed Miliband\u2019s shadow cabinet, or Hilary Clinton\u2019s \u2018I\u2019m running for president,\u2019 tweet that kick started her 2016 presidential campaign earlier this year \u2013 it is clear that Twitter sits at the heart of making and breaking news today, for the media, public and politicians alike.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I&#8217;m running for president. Everyday Americans need a champion, and I want to be that champion. \u2013H <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/w8Hoe1pbtC\">https:\/\/t.co\/w8Hoe1pbtC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HillaryClinton\/status\/587336319321407488\">April 12, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Move aside Justin Bieber, Twitter has become a hotbed for political news &#8211;\u00a0good, bad and controversial. \u00a0Yanis Varoufakis, Greece finance minister and the face of the financial crisis, was the latest to stir up a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":322,"featured_media":78045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1449],"tags":[7111,7112,730,7109,7110],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76999"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/322"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}