Lib Dem MPs have learnt social media is a two-way street

Facebook and Twitter may not have dominated the election, but they are impacting on the messy aftermath

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Whatever the outcome of the increasingly frenzied negotiations between the political parties at Westminster today, I think we have started to see how influential social media can be in modern political debate.

All through the election people were waiting for social media to exert a real influence and apart from the ridicule of the Tory press's smear campaign against Nick Clegg, it never really happened. Many commentators have already rushed to the conclusion that social media was the dog that didn't bark. They were premature. While the TV debates were always going to be the biggest novelty factor in the election campaign itself, although just how much influence they had is going to take some very thoughtful analysis, I think that social media is showing more of its potential in the aftermath o...

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