{"id":9332,"date":"2013-07-28T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-28T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=9332"},"modified":"2013-07-28T11:55:22","modified_gmt":"2013-07-28T15:55:22","slug":"twitdiplomacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/twitdiplomacy\/","title":{"rendered":"TwitDiplomacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/072813_1551_TwitDiploma1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"437\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re all set to live in a world where diplomacy is conducted in 140 characters or less writes Mimi Whitefield:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>About one third of all world leaders personally tweet. 100% of European governments do while only 71% of African governments have Twitter accounts.<\/li>\n<li>With 34.5 million followers the President of the United States has the widest reach among world leaders.<\/li>\n<li>But Obama&#8217;s tweets are only retweeted, on average, 2,309 times. In contrast the Pope&#8217;s 100 tweets have each been retweeted an average of 11,000 times making him the most influential world leader on Twitter.<\/li>\n<li>68% of mutual leaders have mutual connections. Perhaps UN votes could happen through Twitter?<\/li>\n<li>Sweden&#8217;s Carl Bildt is the best connected, having 44 mutual connections with other world leaders.<\/li>\n<li>Venezuela&#8217;s Nicol\u00e1s Maduro sends an average of 41 tweets a day \u2013 the most for any world leader.<\/li>\n<li>Uganda&#8217;s Amama Mbabazi is the most conversational. 96% of his tweets are responses to other individuals.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the dead leader that has more followers than his (still breathing) regional compatriots, why the American government isn&#8217;t the best at tracking other countries, and more fascinating statistics over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/2013\/07\/26\/3524456\/diplomacy-in-140-characters-world.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/2013\/07\/26\/3524456\/diplomacy-in-140-characters-world.html\">The Miami Herald<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re all set to live in a world where diplomacy is conducted in 140 characters or less writes Mimi Whitefield: About one third of all world leaders personally tweet. 100% of European governments do while only 71% of African governments have Twitter accounts. With 34.5 million followers the President of the United States has the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9331,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/072813_1551_TwitDiploma1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9332"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9335,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9332\/revisions\/9335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}