Twitter and the elections

Now the elections are running and Rutte has won his first TV premier debate, the time has come to deepen myself into the politics. 1.3 million people watched the debate on RTL4. Afterwards Synovate asked 1000 people from their database to tell them who they are going to vote after this debate. Rutte won this debate with 34% followed by Cohen with 23%. Now the big question arises: What shall I vote? What are you going to vote?

To reach a broader voting public, RTL is going to experiment. On the second of June between 20.00 and 21.30 there will be a Twitter debate for all Twittering politicians. Will this way of using social media make younger people enthusiastic and interested in politics? The debate that took place Sunday definitely got the attention of the Twitter users. In the so called “trending topics” , #rtldebat was at the top of the list Sunday evening. An hour after the start of the debate over 10,000 tweets were placed with the #rtldebat topic. I’m curious if the Twitter hype will put more younger people to vote!