Ex-MPs: Updated or not?

I blogged the other day about Claudette Hauiti not updating her Twitter profile to reflect the fact that she is no longer an MP. This morning I got a tip off about another former National MP who hasn’t updated their Twitter Bio. So I thought I would use it as a reason to check as many of the outgoing MPs Twitter bios as I could. I have used this list as my reference, plus Labour MPs who did not return on the list. If I have left anyone off, let me know. Accounts that have been closed are disregarded.

 

Holy Walker:

holly

Updated and with a bit of a sense of humour.

 

Darien Fenton:

darien

Updated with a bit of a sense of humour.

Rajen Prasad:

rajen

Updated

 

Carol Beaumont:

beaumount

Not updated. Has tweeted a number of times since the election.

 

Maryan Street:

street

Updated.

 

Moana Mackey:

moana

Not updated. Has tweeted a number of times since the election.

 

Raymond Huo:

huo

Updated.

 

Pita Sharples:

pita

Updated

 

Tariana Turia:

tariana

Updated

 

John Hayes:

john hayes

Not updated. Hasn’t tweeted since May 8.

 

Tau Henare:

tau

Updated.

 

Paul Hutchison:

paul hutc

Not updated. Hasn’t tweeted since July.

 

Chris Tremain:

tremain

Updated.

 

Colin King:

king

Not updated. Last tweet was a retweet in May.

 

The MPs from smaller parties have done well. It is the bigger parties whose ex MPs have not done so well. 67% of the ex Nat MPs (including Claudette) I have checked haven’t updated. 33% of the ex Labour MPs I have checked haven’t done it either, however, just like Claudette had, both Carol and Moana have been tweeting since the election. I doubt they would still be using business cards or letter head claiming to be MPs, why would their Twitter profiles be any different. We are over a past the election.

matthew