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Category: Technology Author : Duncan Riley Posted: November 11, 2008
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Australian Prime Minister joins Twitter


Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has joined Twitter.

The Prime Minister’s Twitter account, presumably updated by staff comes as part of the launch of the KevinPM site, a tame take on the Obama campaign’s social media outreach during the US Presidential Election.

Along with his Twitter account, the Prime Minister also has links to accounts on Flickr, MySpace, Facebook and YouTube.

Rudd comes late to Twitter in Australia, with Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull having joined Twitter in mid-October. Notably Turnbull regularly updates his account himself.

The first Prime Ministerial tweet reads “Looking forward to communicating with you on Twitter.”

Video from KevinPM as follows, and his Twitter account here. Lets just hope he doesn’t say anything to controversial, otherwise his own Government will have to censor it ;-)











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4 Archived Responses to “ Australian Prime Minister joins Twitter ”

  1. chrisloft
    Nov 11, 2008

    There is another Kevin on twitter #kevinrudd – he doesn't answer my questions about shared childcare

  2. Flights to Australia
    Jan 28, 2009

    It is the clever ones that are getting onlne now. The power of online social marketing will soon be a large influance in the whole political relm. Needless to say, as will anything else on the web; those that do it first will benefit the most. So soon we will see the first Priminster Elected soley as a result of an online campaign!!


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