Post invitado de Javier Pereira (jpereira001@gmail.com)

Hace sólo unos días, Jenna Dawn y Laura Gómez, dos portavoces oficiales de Twitter, se mostraron “encantadas” con la participación reciente de presidentes y jefes de Estado de América Latina en la red de microblogging, por el dinamismo que le imprimen a su plataforma. “La incursión de líderes políticos y presidentes, en general, están generando mucho movimiento; así que nos alegra que personajes como el presidente Hugo Chávez utilicen nuestra red”, dijo Dawn durante un evento en Ciudad de México.

Earlier today I published a story on Andrew Stott as the new director of digital engagement in the British government. Later I recognized it was a story from 2009. I deeply apologize to PDF readers for my mistake.

• UK | Introducing Andrew Stott, first Digital Engagement czar
  The U.K. government has hired Andrew Stott as "director of digital engagement" to push its plan to move more public services online and to pursue a better use of digital technologies to engage with citizens.
  Stott will be responsible for implementing the Power of Information Taskforce recommendations:

• UK | Twitter: a new prediction system for elections?
  During the UK electoral campaign Tweetminster conducted a Twitter-based word of mouth experiment : they tracked the most mentioned constituencies and candidates and tried to map the correlation between buzz, word-of-mouth and the eventual election results through a predictive mode (here you can read more about initial findngs and methodology).
  The results?

• UK | Final TV debate: a Twitter analysis
  Linguamatics and NPCU provided an insight of viewer sentiment based on tweet analysis:

  Top issues for the twitterers in the third debate (Figure 3 below) were immigration, banking, economy and tax. Clegg and Brown shared the lead on immigration, Clegg was ahead on banking and tax, whilst Brown clearly won on the economy. The fact that Camercon didn't win any issues of policy substance, but nevertheless improved his performance, suggested viewers are not assessing the leaders on policy specifics - hardly a revelation of course.