Thailand
Thai politicians have embraced Twitter for electoral purposes. Former Prime Minister and opposition leader Abhisit Vejjajiva has abandoned his verified account @pm_abhisit with over 430,000 followers and started a new account @abhisit_dp.
Peer connections (as of 1 July 2012)
- follows unilaterally (1)
- followed unilaterally by (2)
- follows mutually (1)
Yingluck Shinawatra started on Twitter as @PooYingluck on 20 May 2011 shortly after being appointed as party leader for the Peua Thai party. She subsequently changed her account to @PouYingluck. In October 2011 her account was hacked. After a month-long silence the account resumed its activity mainly reposting pictures from of her official engagements from her Facebook page where she has over 600,000 fans.
Tweet analytics (as of 1 July 2012)
| Tweets: | 2,985 | |
| Following: | 74 | |
| Followers: | 77,198 | |
| Joined Twitter: | 05/20/2011 | |
| Language: | Thai | |
| Status: | Active | |
| Tweets/day: | 7.28 | |
| % Retweets: | 8% | |
| Mentions/Tweet: | 0.28 | |
| Replies/Tweet: | 5% | |
| % Tweets retweeted: | 84% | |
| Total of retweets: | 15,352 | |
| Most mentioned | ||
| @PouYingluck (174), @PheuThaiParty (76), @PooYingLuck (49), @ThaiKhuFah (32), @thaitvnews (28). | ||
