November 25, 2009

Prospect Magazine – A fascinating poll was recenlty conducted by the UK’s Prospect magazine asking 2000+ people in the UK which figure from history they would be most likely to follow on Twitter.
Sir Winston Churchill came top (34 per cent) followed by Jesus (30 per cent) and Darwin (28 per cent).

Churchill won the most votes with Conservative supporters, men, those aged over 35 and the English. Jesus had the vote of Scots and Labour voters. But with Liberal democrats, women and the under 35s the pair were a “statistical dead-heat.”

David Goodhart, editor of Prospect says: “Churchill and Jesus both specialised in brief, memorable phrases – so both ‘we will fight them on the beaches’ and ‘blessed are the meek’ are messages perfect for the Twitter generation. Jesus was obviously born to tweet.”

Who would you follow on Twitter?