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Thursday, January 12, 2017
#AskMR: Twitter Q&A, January 2017
Photo by AP, via Deccan Chronicle
SANJANA HATTOTUWA on 01/11/2017
The first #AskMR Twitter Q&A, conducted when former President
Mahinda Rajapaksa was in New York attending the UN sessions in September
2013, was an unmitigated disaster. A complete archive of that session, plus a breakdown of what happened, was posted on Groundviews.
The second Twitter Q&A with the former President was during the
Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in August 2014, on the occasion
of the World Conference on Youth 2014. As we noted in our comprehensive archive of the #WCY2014MR session,
Revealingly, not a single one of the most retweeted questions during the session, posed to the President by three leading journalists in Sri Lanka, were answered.
The third #AskMR Twitter Q&A was conducted earlier today, lasting
around 2 hours and starting at 11am, Sri Lanka time. The Q&A was
announced on 9 January.
Join former #SriLanka President Rajapaksa for a live @Twitter Q&A on Wednesday, Jan. 11, starting at 10 a.m. Send questions using #AskMR. pic.twitter.com/vGZUfEu9Xg— Mahinda Rajapaksa (@PresRajapaksa) 9 January 2017
Unlike in 2013, the former President and his team were active and ready
for the session well before the scheduled time, at 10.42am.
A live search of #AskMR is embedded below, which includes questions leading up to the live session today.
#AskMR Tweets
The former President’s Twitter account, during the session, was clearly
the most active in generating traffic around the #AskMR hashtag.
