Prime minister widens his social media reach

Prime minister Mark Rutte on Friday added Facebook, Hyves and Google+ to his social media network, the Volkskrant reports.

Rutte already had a YouTube and a Twitter account, the paper says. However, while @markrutte may have 52,000 followers on Twitter, he has only ever sent out two ‘tweets’ – both of which refer to other sites.
A spokesman for the state information service RVD said civil servants would be keeping the prime minister’s profile up-to-date. ‘This is a way to give a broader public the opportunity to follow the prime minister,’ the spokesman said.
Satire
The RVD already maintains the prime minister’s Twitter account @MinPres.
Meanwhile, on Tuesday, a satirical Twitter account @Mark_Rutte, run by a 21-year-old student since May 2010, was closed down.
Jorik van Engeland was told by Twitter his tweets, which had 18,000 followers, were breaking the microblogging site’s rules.