Estonia
The Estonian political elite, always on the cusp of electronic innovation has been slow at using social media for their external communication. The Estonian President joined Twitter in mid-May 2012 and became an instant hit for his frank tweets and outspokenness.
Peer connections (as of 1 July 2012)
- follows unilaterally (1)
- followed unilaterally by (1)
- follows mutually (0)
“Help! I'm being followed ;-)” are the first words of Toomas Hendrik Ilves on Twitter. The Estonian President become an instant sensation for his frank and undiplomatic tweets. Ilves, who tweets himself, bluntly criticized New York Times blogger and Nobel Prize economist Paul Krugman as "smug, overbearing & patronizing," in response to a blog post questioning Estonia's economic recovery. “Let's sh*t on East Europeans: their English is bad, won't respond,” he tweeted. "Guess a Nobel in trade means you can pontificate on fiscal matters & declare my country a "wasteland".
Tweet analytics (as of 1 July 2012)
| Tweets: | 122 | |
| Following: | 126 | |
| Followers: | 6,327 | |
| Joined Twitter: | 05/14/2012 | |
| Language: | English/Estonian/Latvian | |
| Status: | Active | |
| Tweets/day: | 2.56 | |
| % Retweets: | 16% | |
| Mentions/Tweet: | 0.17 | |
| Replies/Tweet: | 13% | |
| % Tweets retweeted: | 63% | |
| Total of retweets: | 1,745 | |
| Most mentioned | ||
| @mel_huang (3), @stuartgarlick (2), @silleloves (2), @cfarivar (2), @graafik (1). | ||
Peer connections (as of 1 July 2012)
- follows unilaterally (0)
- followed unilaterally by (2)
- follows mutually (0)
The Estonian Government uses Twitter to publish news related to the government work in Estonian and in English @estoniangovt. The government tweets in Estonian and had a presence on Twitter since May 2009. During the past three years they have tweeted only 350 times, gained 1,100 followers and received a total of 79 retweets. The stream mostly consists of official news with 98% of the tweets containing a link to the Estonian government’s website. There isn’t a single use of @mentions or @replies and they only follow seven other Twitter accounts. The Estonian government is followed by the Latvian government (@brivibas36) but hasn’t reciprocated yet.
Tweet analytics (as of 1 July 2012)
| Tweets: | 370 | |
| Following: | 9 | |
| Followers: | 1,180 | |
| Joined Twitter: | 05/19/2009 | |
| Language: | Estonian | |
| Status: | Active | |
| Tweets/day: | 0.32 | |
| % Retweets: | 0% | |
| Mentions/Tweet: | 0 | |
| Replies/Tweet: | 0% | |
| % Tweets retweeted: | 20% | |
| Total of retweets: | 83 | |
| Most mentioned | ||
