Comments on: Minister a-Twitter http://sherenejose.com/2009/07/12/minister-a-twitter/ A Log of the Pandemonium in the World Within & Without Thu, 17 Nov 2011 13:54:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Minister a-Twitter Part Deux « Potpourri http://sherenejose.com/2009/07/12/minister-a-twitter/#comment-71 Tue, 29 Dec 2009 20:37:01 +0000 http://sherene.wordpress.com/?p=93#comment-71 [...] I wholeheartedly agree with the man on this one, perhaps because he articulates ever so eloquently what I had raised a few months ago; each one of his tweets is breaking the barrier between the old-world formalism of [...]

]]> By: sherene http://sherenejose.com/2009/07/12/minister-a-twitter/#comment-18 Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:04:28 +0000 http://sherene.wordpress.com/?p=93#comment-18 An Indian minister who can speak to people at large on a tech platform most people his age don’t get – that’s unusual accessibility as far as I am concerned. I’m realistic in my expectations that at the end of the day, he’s still a politician & will still take only those questions that he is likely to get some mileage from. Even if it is merely an illusion, the fact that he makes entering politics in India a tad cooler cannot be denied!

]]> By: araYan http://sherenejose.com/2009/07/12/minister-a-twitter/#comment-16 Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:44:31 +0000 http://sherene.wordpress.com/?p=93#comment-16 frankly, twitter does not make tharoor any more ‘reachable’, for, and sensitive tweets to him, won’t fetch replies. even so, the fact that it creates an illusion of a politician who we can ‘follow’ closely and tweet to at-ease, does do tharoor some good. twitter doesn’t make him any better (or worse) than what he is for his constituency\country, however, it creates an impression. and in today’s media driven world, maybe impressions do go a fair bit of the distance.

btw, twitter\neo_indian led me here.

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