Twitter Feeds

In our discussion we looked at twitter and the amount of power people have in their accounts - the amount of followers they have, the amount they follow etc. For example, if somebody has a lot of followers due to their occupation (Prime Minister, having celebrity status) they may have instrumental power which they then turn to influential power through their tweets. If they do not follow many people, the people they do follow are more dominant on their twitter feed, for example in the extract, Mark is on the persons timeline quite constantly, giving him more power. However, the person following Mark still has power as they have the option to unfollow Mark, yet Mark still remains to have more control as he may not follow the person back and if he does not want the person back and if he does not want the person following them to follow them, they can then block them.