Top tweets on the Top 100 Twitter accounts to follow for the election
On Sunday 17 August, the Herald on Sunday published a “Top 100” list of Twitter accounts to follow for the 2014 New Zealand General Election. The list was curated by myself and Bryce Edwards. Here is the reaction from Twitter to the list.
Top100 tweeters to follow this election. “Dotcom’s reach is 3 times greater than John Key’s. An absolute must-follow” http://t.co/e5sM4bzhfR
— Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) August 16, 2014
@bryce_edwards @GeoffMillerNZ Thanks for the mention 🙂
— Colmar Brunton (@ColmarBruntonNZ) August 16, 2014
@bryce_edwards @GeoffMillerNZ Your list is obviously shit.
— Steve Braunias (@SteveBraunias) August 16, 2014
@SteveBraunias @bryce_edwards @GeoffMillerNZ Personallly, I think @dovil should be on the list for her acidic and humorous take on politics
— MelmacSPARKle (@melmac21) August 16, 2014
Top 100 #nzpol tweeters has about 24 women by my count. And 12 non white people. (Cursory glance)
— Lamia (@LI_politico) August 16, 2014
@bryce_edwards @GeoffMillerNZ your levels of betrayal over the last few days have been staggering.
— The Ruminator (@RuminatorNZ) August 17, 2014
@publicaddress @bryce_edwards @LloydBurr @mizjwilliams @GeoffMillerNZ He left me off. I’ve had DEATH THREATS because of it.
— Rob Hosking (@robhosking) August 17, 2014
@bryce_edwards @robhosking @LloydBurr @mizjwilliams Speaking of apologies, I’d like to point out I tweet about politics not just get abused!
— Katie Bradford (@katieabradford) August 17, 2014
I bet no one else on the Herald’s top 100 list burnt their face (actual) on scalding melted cheese today while on a date. Who’s boring now?
— Laura McQuillan (@mcquillanatorz) August 17, 2014
Top 100 tweeters to follow this election http://t.co/ai25BJL24a via @nzherald
— Matthew Littlewood (@M_Littlewood84) August 17, 2014
Yesterdays piece in the @nzherald by @bryce_edwards encouraged 80 peeps to follow me. I thought I’d been spammed.
— Paora Ropata (@kiaora4that) August 17, 2014
Top 100 tweeters to follow this election http://t.co/hH9903K41h Urk feeling performance pressure already! Check it out @HowieMeg @musettecc
— Claire Robinson (@Spinprofessor) August 16, 2014
Dubbed an official left-wing pundit in the @nzherald. Time to crack open the filling with the cyanide capsule.
— Giovanni Tiso (@gtiso) August 16, 2014
@bryce_edwards @Redbaiternz @GeoffMillerNZ Bryce there is a big omission – You. Went hunting in left-wing tweeters. You’re too modest.
— Fran O’Sullivan (@FranOSullivan) August 16, 2014
Picking 10 from each categories are actually not easy. And I like talk crap on #Twitter @caffeine_addict @bryce_edwards @FranOSullivan
— Bevan Chuang (@MsBevanChuang) August 16, 2014
Thanks @bryce_edwards + @GeoffMillerNZ for inclusion on @nzherald top 100 election tweeters. Next task: get @WoodhouseMP to follow me. 😉
— Murdoch (@DoingOurBitNZ) August 16, 2014
Thanks for the mention @bryce_edwards http://t.co/Oex93oO3BV 🙂
— Callum Valentine (@callumvalentine) August 16, 2014
Thanks for all the new followers @bryce_edwards and @nzherald!
— Graeme Edgeler (@GraemeEdgeler) August 16, 2014
Top 100 NZ political tweeters in one Twitter list: https://t.co/66yr7AqW3K No @CitizenBomber because he has blocked me. #DirtyPolitics
— Geoffrey Miller (@GeoffMillerNZ) August 16, 2014
Fvkmi, 40 followers in one day and the day isn’t over. Thanks to @bryce_edwards and @nzherald (I think).
— Paora Ropata (@kiaora4that) August 17, 2014
thanks @bryce_edwards @GeoffMillerNZ @miriyananz — some good company to be in (and some bad).
— Philip Matthews (@secondzeit) August 17, 2014
That @bryce_edwards list of tweeters to follow? 60 men, 24 women, 14 unknown, 2 who I forgot to code. That’s a 2:1 men:women ratio.
— Keir Leslie (@KeirLeslie) August 17, 2014
@ShakingStick @secondzeit @bryce_edwards @GeoffMillerNZ @miriyananz depicts you as sort of thinky left wing Man of Mystery. Not inaccurate.
— Rob Hosking (@robhosking) August 17, 2014
@Zagzigger @kiaora4that @bryce_edwards @nzherald there is only 1 women “thinker” and 8 men. Guess they r 2 busy barefoot in the kitchen
— Helen Kelly (@helenkellyCTU) August 17, 2014
@bryce_edwards @robhosking @LloydBurr @mizjwilliams @GeoffMillerNZ And I have 16,681 followers, not 15,000! I’m consulting my lawyers 😉
— Russell Brown (@publicaddress) August 17, 2014
Thank you darlings @bryce_edwards @GeoffMillerNZ tis only a hobby — Metiria Turei parody (@MetiriaTureiMP) August 18, 2014
but am feeling well enough now to say, gosh thanks @bryce_edwards and @GeoffMillerNZ! i don’t know what to say, am totally humbled 🙂 — Jessica Williams (@mizjwilliams) August 18, 2014
@petesime @gtiso @BillyRalston @GeoffMillerNZ @bryce_edwards I am still frekn pissed off http://t.co/qJrDXWwLlG — marcuspbaird (@marcusthetechie) August 18, 2014
@gtiso @BillyRalston loss like there’s an opening on the top 100 @GeoffMillerNZ and @bryce_edwards compiled
— Peter Sime (@petesime) August 18, 2014
Twitter list of @nzherald‘s NZ top 100 politics tweeters: https://t.co/jS1IFQsPmZ So u don’t have to follow 100 a/cs. Thanks @GeoffMillerNZ.
— Richard MacManus (@ricmac) August 18, 2014
@GeoffMillerNZ blocked some time now, also for some reason blocked by TDB’s account which only ever tweets blog post announcements
— The Egonomist (@TheEgonomist) August 18, 2014
@GeoffMillerNZ me! It’s probably faster to put the entire twitterverse on the list and then deselect who he hasn’t blocked.
— Dovil (@Dovil) August 17, 2014
@nerdyjewishgrrl @HORansome @bryce_edwards @nzdodo and what that list does is repeat the depressing partisan logic. FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!
— Giovanni Tiso (@gtiso) August 17, 2014
@nerdyjewishgrrl @HORansome @bryce_edwards then again, who’d want to be part of a list that starts with slater, farrar, williams, hooton?
— Giovanni Tiso (@gtiso) August 17, 2014
@bryce_edwards @nz_voter @LloydBurr @mizjwilliams @GeoffMillerNZ all political parody accounts should be removed (gravely unfunny)
— milt ronmey (@someofmybest) August 17, 2014
This list is a joke “@AnaSamways: Top 100 Political tweeter Mike Hosking is proving his ranking today… pic.twitter.com/WNIGJm2rW0”
— Dr Sea Rotmann (@DrSeaRotmann) August 17, 2014
@gtiso tell them that @nzherald, @bryce_edwards and @GeoffMillerNZ don’t do man ban! #toptweeters
— Bevan Chuang (@MsBevanChuang) August 17, 2014
@bryce_edwards nevertheless here are 50 people and even then it doesn’t cover it pic.twitter.com/VQzapLCkrl
— Justine (@nerdyjewishgrrl) August 17, 2014
Top 100 Political tweeter Mike Hosking is proving his ranking today… pic.twitter.com/thuT1Wjprb
— Ana Samways (@AnaSamways) August 17, 2014
(And the one woman there is is not, say, @nzdodo, but that demented “political marketing specialist” the media love to quote these days.)
— Giovanni Tiso (@gtiso) August 17, 2014
The TOP FOUR rightwing pundits on @nzherald‘s list of Tweeters are deeply implicated in #dirtypolitics. What does THAT say? #nzpol
— Stephanie Rodgers (@stephanierodgrs) August 17, 2014
@_jjw_ Ironic that users of new media are crying about old media not including them in a list of the old media’s favourite new media
— Jehan Casinader (@jehancasinader) August 17, 2014
This list also suggests you should follow redbaiter. If you are, you’re even more stupid than if you follow Slater & Co. Jesus Christ.
— Giovanni Tiso (@gtiso) August 17, 2014
Another very strong predictor of whether your opinion is worth listening to in politics: possessing a penis. #rtp
— Giovanni Tiso (@gtiso) August 17, 2014
How to play into #dirtypolitics: take the documented liar & manipulator, list him as the #1 person people must follow http://t.co/Dq4V9UxfCW
— Giovanni Tiso (@gtiso) August 17, 2014
@bryce_edwards @GeoffMillerNZ any chance you could comment on the paucity of women on your list?
— SJT (@simonjtapp) August 16, 2014
@bryce_edwards @GeoffMillerNZ also, like, dudes talking to dudes about why they aren’t talking about women on the net. That’s what’s wrong.
— SJT (@simonjtapp) August 16, 2014
@robhosking @LloydBurr @bryce_edwards @mizjwilliams @GeoffMillerNZ people do love a list
— John Drinnan (@Zagzigger) August 17, 2014
Starting to feel #Unloved by @bryce_edwards TopTwitters list at #127 – & nothing not even a honourable mention-damn he is harsh 🙁 Im broken
— Lost in Poker (@LostInPoker) August 19, 2014
So this is who to follow for next 5 weeks http://t.co/vUp2lTH5VC @simonemccallum Saves heaps of time. See who’s smart & who’s not
— Selwyn Pellett (@SelwynPellett) August 18, 2014
@bryce_edwards at this rate the list is expanding to the size of a Moonie wedding! Good sport healing bruised egoes
— Oliver Chan (@finetoothcolumn) August 18, 2014
@BillyRalston @bryce_edwards Bryce can I take Bill’s place in the top 100 tweeters now that he’s quit? Thanks
— Steve Braunias (@SteveBraunias) August 18, 2014
Thanks @bryce_edwards ,,, my feed is enriched by your sage recommendations…..
— D’Horn (@egorub) August 18, 2014
@bryce_edwards the ones i have seen that I follow make me seriously think about following the others.
— Matthew Beveridge (@matthewjpb) August 18, 2014
@bryce_edwards Can you make me #666 please 🙂
— dirtydeedsnz (@dirtydeedsnz) August 18, 2014
@bryce_edwards I’m picking Gerry Brownlee still won’t make the list.
— toad (@toad001) August 18, 2014
Hey erryone @bryce_edwards is giving shoutouts to everyone who whines about not being told they’re special often enough. Get in quick!
— BK Drinkwater (@BKDrinkwater) August 18, 2014
@bryce_edwards Thanks for the mention Bryce, explains the extra followers today. These are intriguing times for political junkies eh?
— StoogetalkZB (@mattedwords) August 18, 2014
Just a short reminder to all my new Twitter followers that your subscription fees are due this week.
— Imperator Fish (@ImperatorFish) August 18, 2014
So this is who to follow for next 5 weeks http://t.co/vUp2lTH5VC @simonemccallum Saves heaps of time. See who’s smart & who’s not
— Selwyn Pellett (@SelwynPellett) August 18, 2014
@bryce_edwards @GeoffMillerNZ Thanks very much for including me in your list of da greatest tweeters of all time!
— Guy Williams (@guywilliamsguy) August 17, 2014
@MarkHubbard33 @bryce_edwards To be fair to Bryce, it is just one list, written by one person. Nothing more 🙂
— Marama Davidson (@MaramaDavidson) August 17, 2014
It’s okay twitter whanau. @bryce_edwards would have never made it on my list either. 🙂
— Marama Davidson (@MaramaDavidson) August 17, 2014
Wahoo, made the #Top50 #twitter list. Backbencher on twitter. Thanks @Bryce-Edwards & @GeoffMiller @nzheraldnznews pic.twitter.com/iTZokpigNg
— West Side Tory (@tauhenare) August 17, 2014
Welcome new followers, even the oddballs. Also;@bryce_edwards and @GeoffMillerNZ -Thanks guys! As agreed, the cheque’s in the post…honest.
— Election Satire (@2014satire) August 17, 2014
Being named #2 on the Herald’s list of twitter thinkers seems like a good time to re-post this: pic.twitter.com/BEUnumVJy6
— Danyl Mclauchlan (@danylmc) August 17, 2014
Welcome to my legions of new @nzherald-reading minio… I mean, followers.
— Lew (@LewSOS) August 17, 2014
@bryce_edwards @LloydBurr @mizjwilliams @GeoffMillerNZ Having been involved in compiling these sorts of lists in past you have my sympathy..
— Rob Hosking (@robhosking) August 17, 2014
@secondzeit @GeoffMillerNZ @ShakingStick @bryce_edwards @miriyananz You’re not on NZ Twitter unless you’ve been blocked by Bomber. #Meme
— Mark Hubbard (@MarkHubbard33) August 17, 2014
Top 100 Tweeters to follow this election – http://t.co/j4knhEECKJ – Featuring IP’s @lailaharre @miriampierard and @callumvalentine
— Internet Party (@InternetPartyNZ) August 17, 2014
I am not convinced @whaledump is more than a troll. #nzpol But hey, I wish I could get that many followers in such a short amount of time.
— Thinking Kiwi (@Thinking_Kiwi) August 18, 2014
@jamesjrobertson you’ll have to speak to @bryce_edwards and the other guy who compiled that Twitter list for the Herald. Who am I to argue?
— Giovanni Tiso (@gtiso) August 21, 2014
Thank you, apologies for the delay @bryce_edwards and @GeoffMillerNZ that was very kind of you
— Russell Norman (@RussellNormanMP) August 21, 2014
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