Is UKIP winning on Facebook and Twitter?
This article is
about how Nigel Farage’s party has made an impact on social media as they have
been taking to Twitter to tweet about why they should be elected and they speak
against parties such as Labour.
- A YouTube video of a Ukip calypso song has been shared widely online, with Nigel Farage tweeting at his supporters to buy the track and make it No 1 in the singles chart. #Ukipcalypso trended on Twitter on Monday as a result.
- The party, which is currently polling at 15% according to YouGov, has disproportionately high levels of social media engagement for the size of its membership (which is about 39,000, according to the most recently released figure, compared with 190,000 for Labour and 134,000 for the Conservatives).
- Ukip was, perhaps unsurprisingly, mentioned on Twitter more than any other party in the runup to the European elections
- Ukip currently has 276,435 likes on Facebook, which is just 18,153 likes short of the Conservative party’s 294,588 and over 82,000 ahead of the Labour Party, which only has 193,788.
l would say the easiest way to get a message across to the public by political parties is to take to social media. This is why UKIP have become quite popular on Twitter and Facebook.
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