Will 2010 be a Twitter Election year?

With a general election just weeks away now, I’ve been wondering just what part Twitter will play in electing the next government? A new poll by Lewis Communications has revealed that 24 percent of the 1000 people consulted thought that Twitter was an essential communication tool in a democracy such as ours. That said, only 27 percent said they might be encouraged to vote for an MP who contacted them through their social networking service compared to 48 percent who would not be so minded. Mind you, one in six of those asked also thought that the barman in The Simpsons, Moe Szyslak, was a political blogger so maybe we shouldn’t take these figures too seriously.