Norway
The entire Norwegian government is on Twitter with official institutional accounts for each department.
Peer connections (as of 1 July 2012)
- follows unilaterally (2)
- followed unilaterally by (7)
- follows mutually (7)
Jens Stoltenberg, the Prime Minister of Norway, is one of the best connected world leaders on Twitter mutually following six other world leaders. Jens Stoltenberg mixes official tweets, often retweeting the government office, with personal observations. His account is highly engaged with 36% of his tweets being @replies and he mentions other Twitter users in every second tweet. Jens Stoltenberg tweets mainly in Norwegian and important international messages in English, such as this tweet after the bombing in Oslo and the shooting in Utøya: “Today,we have been hit by two savage and cowardly attacks. Tonight, we all stand together, taking care of each other.” His most re-tweeted tweet was his reaction to the sudden death of Norwegian swimming champion Alexander Dale Oen at the age of 26: “Alexander Dale Oen was a great athlete for a small country. My thoughts are with his family and friends.”
Tweet analytics (as of 1 July 2012)
| Tweets: | 1,066 | |
| Following: | 37,517 | |
| Followers: | 156,382 | |
| Joined Twitter: | 02/13/2009 | |
| Language: | Norwegian/English | |
| Status: | Active | |
| Tweets/day: | 0.9 | |
| % Retweets: | 12% | |
| Mentions/Tweet: | 0.47 | |
| Replies/Tweet: | 36% | |
| % Tweets retweeted: | 53% | |
| Total of retweets: | 16,984 | |
| Most mentioned | ||
| @nicecap (10), @Arbeiderpartiet (9), @steinkk (4), @NTNU (4), @arnestrand (4). | ||
Peer connections (as of 1 July 2012)
- follows unilaterally (2)
- followed unilaterally by (2)
- follows mutually (1)
The Norwegian government has a news feed combining the news from all its departments on the @Regjeringen account. The Prime Minister’s office tweets official news, meetings and the agenda of Prime Minister Stoltenberg under the handle @Statsmin_kontor. The most re-tweeted tweet is the announcement of a minute’s silence held on 25 July 2011 in memory of the victims of the Utøya massacre.
Tweet analytics (as of 1 July 2012)
| Tweets: | 683 | |
| Following: | 180 | |
| Followers: | 9,438 | |
| Joined Twitter: | 04/28/2009 | |
| Language: | Norwegian/English | |
| Status: | Active | |
| Tweets/day: | 0.61 | |
| % Retweets: | 2% | |
| Mentions/Tweet: | 0.08 | |
| Replies/Tweet: | 1% | |
| % Tweets retweeted: | 32% | |
| Total of retweets: | 654 | |
| Most mentioned | ||
| @jensstoltenberg (32), jonasgahrstore(3), @DSB_no (2), @UNICEF (2), @UN (2) | ||
