Social media has become a thermometer of relations between politicians, especially in the case of Twitter. Our leaders use it to make announcements, mark positions, and even throw taunts at each other. Therefore, you must always be vigilant … A comment or an ‘unfollow’ (stop following someone) can become news. More than one would be scared this Thursday when Inés Arrimadas stopped following Toni Cantó’s profile, its spokesperson in the Parliament of the Valencian Community and a strong man of its executive.
To make matters worse, yesterday they shared a campaign event with MEP Jordi Cañas and the number two on the Barcelona list, Anna Grau. The alarms went on and took little time to go off because the team of the president of Ciudadanos clarified that it must be an error and that it was also not new: it has happened on some other occasion that an ‘unfollow’ was indicated that she had not sought by giving foot to all kinds of comments.
The snitch, once again, was the account of @GovernmentAlerta, a ‘bot’ whose task is to notify movements in institutional accounts. That is to say: watch who politicians follow and unfollow most relevant of our country and warns of it. That is why he has starred in viral moments such as when last November the second vice president, Pablo Iglesias, stopped following nothing more and nothing less than the official account of Real home.
It also served to anticipate the purges within Podemos during the war of Pabloites and Errejonistas by anticipating the movements that the official accounts had. Whoever stopped following … fell from grace.
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BIOGRAPHY
He is always hidden behind the curtains of the halls of power and with an alert ear. He is our Confidant, that anonymous man, small and wearing a raincoat, who puts the focus in a casual way on those details that do not reach the category of news but that many times are revealing of the uses and manners of the protagonists of our public life
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