{"id":4144,"date":"2018-02-12T12:16:53","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T10:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4144"},"modified":"2018-02-12T12:16:53","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T10:16:53","slug":"labourstarts-twitter-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4144","title":{"rendered":"LabourStart&#8217;s Twitter accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4154\" src=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/larrybird-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"71\" \/>LabourStart has <strong>18<\/strong> Twitter accounts, the vast majority of which are inactive.<\/p>\n<p>The active ones, however, are growing very quickly.\u00a0 (Thanks to the efforts primarily of Derek.)<\/p>\n<p>If you want to help with any of these, especially with the inactive ones, please get in touch &#8211; <a href=\"mailto:ericlee@labourstart.org\">ericlee@labourstart.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Below the list of our accounts, we&#8217;ve added a quick survey of how some of the major international trade union institutions are faring on Twitter as well.<\/p>\n<p>Most of these are quite small, especially relative to the size of the number of union members they represent.\u00a0 LabourStart&#8217;s feed is larger than all but one of these.<\/p>\n<p>But our feed, and those of the other global labour websites, can be <em><strong>MUCH<\/strong><\/em> larger if we all make an effort.<\/p>\n\n<table id=\"tablepress-1\" class=\"tablepress tablepress-id-1\">\n<thead>\n<tr class=\"row-1 odd\">\n\t<th class=\"column-1\">Description<\/th><th class=\"column-2\">Followers Today<\/th><th class=\"column-3\">Followers in December 2017<\/th><th class=\"column-4\">Last updated<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody class=\"row-hover\">\n<tr class=\"row-2 even\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">English - LabourStart<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">19,267<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">18,488<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">Today<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-3 odd\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Canada - English - LabourStartCanE<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">8,216<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">7,745<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">Today<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-4 even\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Australia - AndrewSCasey<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">2,681<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">2,653<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">31.1.18<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-5 odd\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">USA - LaborStartUSA<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">2,635<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">1,898<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">Today<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-6 even\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Canada - French - LabourStartCanF<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">1,944<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">1,872<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">Today<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-7 odd\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Italian - LS_Italia<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">530<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">538<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">3.2.18<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-8 even\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Swedish - labourstartSE<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">369<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">370<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">5.10.16<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-9 odd\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Indonesia - indoz1<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">358<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">360<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">15.10.15<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-10 even\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Portuguese - LabourStartPT<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">276<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">278<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">29.12.17<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-11 odd\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">French - labourstart_fr<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">227<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">230<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">Protected<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-12 even\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">German - LabourStartDE<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">92<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">92<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">8.6.16<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-13 odd\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Spanish - LabourStartES<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">70<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">70<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">20.8.14<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-14 even\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Japanese - labourstartjpn<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">19<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">21<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">22.6.12<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-15 odd\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Russian - LabourStartRU<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">19<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">19<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">2.6.12<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-16 even\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Norwegian - LabourStartNO<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">18<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">19<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">22.5.12<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-17 odd\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Turkish - LabourStartTR<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">15<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">16<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">3.5.12<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-18 even\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Dutch - LabourStartnl<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">12<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">12<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">6.4.12<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-19 odd\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Arabic - LabourStartAR<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">8<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">8<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">5.5.12<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n<table id=\"tablepress-2\" class=\"tablepress tablepress-id-2\">\n<thead>\n<tr class=\"row-1 odd\">\n\t<th class=\"column-1\">Description<\/th><th class=\"column-2\">Followers on 12.2.18<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody class=\"row-hover\">\n<tr class=\"row-2 even\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">IFJ<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">21,519<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-3 odd\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">ITUC<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">17,721<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-4 even\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Education International<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">13,777<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-5 odd\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">UNI<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">13,288<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-6 even\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">IndustriALL<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">11,670<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-7 odd\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">ITF<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">7,401<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-8 even\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">PSI<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">4,130<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-9 odd\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">IUF<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">2,950<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-10 even\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">TUAC<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">2,678<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-11 odd\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">BWI<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">1,741<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LabourStart has 18 Twitter accounts, the vast majority of which are inactive. 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