{"id":4335,"date":"2022-01-12T16:39:17","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T15:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/12\/techscape-inside-the-rise-and-fall-of-politics-for-all\/"},"modified":"2022-01-12T16:39:17","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T15:39:17","slug":"techscape-inside-the-rise-and-fall-of-politics-for-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/12\/techscape-inside-the-rise-and-fall-of-politics-for-all\/","title":{"rendered":"TechScape: Inside the rise and fall of Politics For All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this week\u2019s newsletter: before it was banned, Politics For All\u2019s emoji-laden tweets were reaching millions of followers \u2013 and the UK government &#8211; by manipulating the perverse incentives of social media<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ablink.editorial.theguardian.com\/ss\/c\/TBl-lE0k4WbTlFRn6v-lQXxTpTslqnvUsR2ofAkC00vqkHXqakTSxrykj9mrdACFo11SPMvm9ONAti2JcHBqUgcduObToxycReEYHcTAh6nov_u_7l464yKkl5CZpPeg-CqG3ueb-8UiDZ4dOkhK_xu6BZysaGtGOA-w2_0KTqLsMBLqZrcGelEg-7T5C6DRfMSsX1Wcyrv2RlHjbzIGx0ePxMD7meIXmznkqCFxtrflV_YvxDV9cqXgzdq7c2-9qYTW0MyIMCG7p9sc7wIKCg\/3ha\/N7031ZxvS8Cv2AmB8PHP-g\/h27\/towm4HqYM1UtQe3kzAkaoAWT_zh9HyZuTvPyJCk6JeE\">Don\u2019t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up here<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you want to understand how a group of teenagers with no journalistic experience created one of the most influential political social media accounts in the UK, then ask Travis Wright. The 18-year-old spent most of last year helping to build Politics For All which, before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/jan\/04\/twitter-permanently-bans-news-aggregation-service-politics-for-all\">it was banned by Twitter<\/a> last week, gained 100,000s of followers including cabinet ministers, celebrities, and sports stars.<\/p>\n<p>By day he was studying multimedia journalism at a sixth form college in rural Suffolk but when lessons finished he was writing breaking news tweets that were being shared by cabinet ministers and Match of the Day host Gary Lineker.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/jan\/12\/techscape-politics-for-all-twitter\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/2348de6427e3f17e7d66326e35f9960051683cd3\/0_37_3500_2101\/master\/3500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=2b367be236910ab6f8c8e12a61f3709c\" title=\"TechScape: Inside the rise and fall of Politics For All\" \/>In this week\u2019s newsletter: before it was banned, Politics For All\u2019s emoji-laden tweets were reaching millions of followers \u2013 and the UK government &#8211; by manipulating the perverse incentives of social media<br \/>\nDon\u2019t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up here<br \/>\nIf you want to understand how a group of teenagers with no journalistic experience created one of the most influential political social media accounts in the UK, then ask Travis Wright. The 18-year-old spent most of last year helping to build Politics For All which, before it was banned by Twitter last week, gained 100,000s of followers including cabinet ministers, celebrities, and sports stars.<br \/>\nBy day he was studying multimedia journalism at a sixth form college in rural Suffolk but when lessons finished he was writing breaking news tweets that were being shared by cabinet ministers and Match of the Day host Gary Lineker. 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