A Lakehead University professor is counting the tweets.
Livio DiMateo says he is checking out which of the local candidates in the federal election are on Twitter and seeing what kind of following they have.
"I weas very interested in knowing how the candidates were making use of some of the newer social media," says DiMateo. "What I've been doing is following the number of twitter followers on my blog called 'Northern Economists'."
DiMateo says he wants to see if the number of followers a candidate has matches the vote count at the end of the election.
