Dutch Prime Minister Rutte joins Google+

Posted on Jan 6, 2012 in Technology | 7 comments

Dutch Prime Minister Rutte joins Google+

Dutch Prime Minister Rutte has joined social network Google+ today and has now his own page on the new social networking Google+.

Through this page he will with interact with other users of Google + on important topics and post updates.

Prime Minister Rutte said: “I use social media mainly to share what I’m doing as Prime Minister.

Rutte was already active on Twitter, but since today Prime Minister Mark Rutte also a profile on Google+, Facebook and Hyves.

Internet giant Google has launched Google+ in June 2011. One of the features is Google’s Circles+, which allows users to easily share messages with specific groups of people. This allows leaders of political parties, to create circles to communicate with various groups of regional party representatives and to inform the Dutch people.

We look forward to seeing how Prime Minister Rutte uses Google+ to give updates of what happens in the everyday life of the Prime Minister of the Netherlands.

More at The Dutch Daily News

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  • Marius

    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.

  • Sorin

    Prime Minister Rutte said: “I use social media mainly to share what I’m doing as Prime Minister. Also added Facebook, Hyves and Google+ to his social media network..

    This is why nothing gets done in political offices. They spend more time on social networks chit-chatting than doing their job to help fix the economic eu mess. Britain was right to stay out of euro mess. Everyone knows Facebook is for fools who can’t figure out how to spend their time doing constructive things. Imagine getting paid to do nothing but play all day on social networks.

  • Dutch

    Facebook and My Face are for children and stupid adults and also used by many pedophiles. Prime Minister Rutte should find better thinks to do with his job. Some forget about honest work ethics when they get their political positions.

  • CW

    Prime Minister Rutte – What a LOSER. Stupid is as stupid does. You all voted for him.

  • Thank God It’s Friday

    I wonder if Rutte will add Obama as a friend

  • Stupid

    Just ‘tweaking’ things here and there is not going to fix this economy.

  • Robin

    See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time.