Around the world, governments and citizens are engaging on social media. With 2.5 billion users, social media is now the dominant arena for global communications. Social media has been providing new opportunities to the government so as to allow them to share their views, decisions and opinions with the citizens at optimal moments. In fact it also renowned as one of the public’s favorite forums for engaging in government and public issues (Rusell.2017). Before, there was a constant barrier between the government and the public. However, with the introduction and development of social media in the political arena there has been a massive change (Polunsky.2014). In today’s digital world, most conversations are done virtually on social media whereby the political candidates can connect, interact and communicate with citizens without much hard work. In accordance with various researchers, social media is thy tool which enable a two way communication. Scholars have argued that the interaction between the audience and the government has increased and is in turn promoting an online political engagement between them (Hoffman and Kornweitz.2011: Metzgar and Maruggi.2009). This means that not only both parties can share their …show more content…
But it was conventionally launched in 2007. Twitter is very popular the foreign states where most political actors shares their political agendas and activities and today twitter has above 218 million active users posting and sharing more than 500 tweets per day (Polunsky.2014). Moreover, transparency is also very important for any government and its population. A government is considered transparent only when it allows and involves participation the population in the decision making process. And twitter can exemplify this process (Polunsky.2014). However, though popular in other powerful foreign states, in Mauritius twitter is not so accepted and