Why does Hillary Clinton follow 0 people on Twitter?

Probably. I would have thought those companies would seek to mine any data they can get their hands on.

But, the candidates don't need to follow people for that data to be mined. All the analysts need are for people to be following the candidates.

Interestingly though Obama has almost 10x the people following him than Clinton does. So there's a hell of a lot more data to be analysed.

I wonder why so few people follow Clinton in comparison to Obama - and how many follow both?

I'm sure some interesting data could come of it, but I doubt a would need any connection -- a follower/followee relationship -- with a Twitterer to do that mining. Nearly all Twitter messages are public anyway, so I would think it could be a part of any other Web analytics a campaign might be doing.

Plus, I doubt anyone expects to be followed by Hillary (or Barack or any other presidential candidate) in return. And even if that happened, no one would expect it to mean anything.

However, if a candidate had the courage (sad that it would take courage) and a few minutes a day to interact just a little -- for real -- that would be very cool.

Don't relationships require reciprocity?

Hillary Clinton is "beaver" Cleaver's mother with a meat cleaver.A ghastly non-woman.

Maybe it's because Hillary has better things to do.

Maybe it's because Twitter is a virtual closed loop of social networking systems.

KUDOS to Charles Gibson and George Stephanopoulos!!! I hope all the other mainstream media morons were watching... These two guys exercised the TRUE principles of journalism...
1. Journalism's first obligation is to the truth
2. Its first loyalty is to citizens
3. Its essence is a discipline of verification
4. Maintain an independence from those they cover (Most need to REVISIT)
5. It must serve as an independent monitor of power
6. It must provide a forum for public criticism and compromise
7. It must strive to make the significant interesting and relevant
8. It must keep the news comprehensive and proportional
9. Its practitioners must be allowed to exercise their personal conscience

Be they black or white, woman or man, any presidential candidate should have to answer the tough questions; they should be scrutinized; they should be tested as to their experience and worthiness of the most important job in the country!

It's not just raking through followers' tweets that would provide value. Another strategy would be to mine followers' data for their Twitter popularity, to see who among the followers are thought leaders, popular bloggers, etc. and then target Tweets to specific follower segments.

Hillary and Obama are following me on twitter. But I haven't got one personal message. I am miffed! Not. Has anyone ever had a personal message from either candidate on Twitter?

What the hell's a twitter?

Gordon Brown, English PM twitters. He actively responds to followers questions (whether it's him actually writing is a separate question). Follow him here,

http://twitter.com/DowningStreet