Politics and Twitter

Twitter served many purposes and has grown increasingly popular in poltical elections. Many people tweet and “retweet” opinions and ideas of what they look for in a leader and why they feel one candidate is better than another candidate. It is increasing popular during elections that twitter begins trending certain political figures and this may sway people to vote one way or another. Campaigning is no longer just flyers in the mail or television ads it is based on social media and twitter has taken a hand in it all. Society is taking in information about future elected officials through a new outlet and this can be swaying, for example if someone sees their friend tweeting or bolstering a candidiate for office they may simply vote for that candidiate because it came up on their timeline it can simply just be a name recognition on the ballet.