Political parties are now also joining Twitter en masse.
- The Social Democrats can be found at http://twitter.com/socialdemokrat.
- The Left Party: http://twitter.com/vansterpartiet.
- The Green Party: http://twitter.com/Miljopartiet.
- The Centre Party is at http://twitter.com/Centerpartiet and its youth division CUF at http://twitter.com/cuf.
- The Moderate Party has protected updates and no followers: http://twitter.com/Moderaterna.
- The Liberals also have an inactive account: http://twitter.com/folkpartiet.
It's still early days, but the opposition is ahead of the ruling parties.
Initiatives like this list of Swedish Twitter users and a hashtag for Swedes on Twitter (#svpt) will help grow the network quite rapidly. And my prediction is that by the time we move into election campaigning in 2010, Twitter will be a much more important micro blogging platform than Jaiku, due to the ease of use. The ability to easily re-tweet messages also makes Twitter far more viral than Jaiku, although I find it way easier to have meaningful conversations on Jaiku, it simply doesn't scale the way that Twitter does.
Footnote: I am @kullin on Twitter.
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