This presentation was used during the DiploFoundation's Advanced Webinar in eDiplomacy titled "Twitter for Diplomats" on March 8, 2013. Webinar and slideshow by Andreas Sandre (on Twitter: @andreas212nyc).
6. Social Media use is growing: active monthly users, as of January 2013:
1bil
800 mil
343 mil
288 mil
200 mil
77 mil
75 mil
40 mil
Source: Global Web Index
7. Twitter was the world’s fastest-growing social platform in 2012,
adding an incredible 40 percent more active users
between Q2 and Q4 of last year.
485 mil
408 mil
288 mil
206 mil
Q4 2012 Q3 2012
Source: Global Web Index
11. MAIN SHIFTS
Major shifts in diplomacy reflect all major shifts in ICT
Twitter and Social Media have changed the
approach: from top-down to bottom-up; from
hierarchies to networks and citizens
Twitter has given foreign policy and diplomacy
practitioners a simpler way to engage with publics
12. The spread of information networks is forming
a new nervous system for our planet.
When something happens in Haiti or Hunan,
the rest of us learn about it in real time – from real people.
And we can respond in real time as well.
Hillary Clinton
January 2010
13. a world in which states come apart […] and have the
ability to network or partner or make an alliance with
social actors. […] It is a horizontal world. There are no
ladders because there are no hierarchies. It is a web.
Power still exists in a web, but it is exercised from the
center, not the top.”
Anne Marie Slaughter
March 2012
17. Department of State: 23 Oct 2007 475,000
Susan Rice: 28 January 2009 268,000
The White House: 10 April 2009 3.7 mil
Alec Ross: 14 Oct 2009 378,500
18. 300 The secretary [John Kerry] is really
committed to using these tools to
help us advance our diplomatic
400 goals… It’s going to continue to
make our diplomats more effective
in today’s world
185
Victoria Esser
March 2013
34. RISKS AND BENEFITS
Getting it wrong could start a war: imagine if a
diplomat misguidedly tweeted a link to that
offensive anti-Islam film. Getting it right has the
potential to rewrite the diplomatic rulebook.
Tom Fletcher
October 2012
39. DO BENEFITS OUTWEIGHT RISKS?
IS VISIBILITY A RISK?
WHO TO PUT IN CHARGE?
DO WE NEED A SYSTEM OF CHECK AND BALANCES?
IS VISIBILITY A BENEFIT?
ARE WE READY FOR TWITTER?
IS TWITTER MOLDING INTO MORE THAN A
MICRO BLOGGING SITE?