General Election 2015: Milifandom vs Cameronettes – who is winning the social media battle? (Answer: It’s much less tight than the real thing)

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Something is happening on Twitter…. are politicians becoming… cool? 

Possibly. It seems to have started with one Labour-loving AS level student's ambition yesterday to launch a campaign fighting the view that Ed Miliband's image is a problem. 
 
https://twitter.com/twcuddleston/status/590583801698463744
 
Her plan was good. Almost too good:
 
https://twitter.com/Sidra_h92/status/590797834745675776
 
https://twitter.com/alexshilling/status/590793495692124160
 
https://twitter.com/twcuddleston/status/590795472962527234
 
https://twitter.com/twcuddleston/status/590805244206047232
 
https://twitter.com/cmgirlwhowaited/status/590805525031432192
 
Lots of people love him – but not everyone can spell his surname: 
 
https://twitter.com/BRlGHTEYES/status/590861242027249665
 
Miliband replied… but his response was lacking the sort of enthusiasm normally demonstrated by teen crushes with a rather stiff-upper-lip tweet. Still the fans seemed happy. 
 
https://twitter.com/Ed_Miliband/status/590807774482698240
 
https://twitter.com/MrsHudsonsHair/status/590807840790601728
 
https://twitter.com/UncannyVal/status/590807939201556480
 
Hers is not the only account to be proclaiming the Miliband is crazy/sexy/cool line. 
 
The Twitter account @CoolEdMiliband was launched in the last week and is quickly building up steam.
 
https://twitter.com/cooledmiliband/status/590854986910855169
 
https://twitter.com/cooledmiliband/status/590646668510494720
 
https://twitter.com/cooledmiliband/status/589547499209232386
 
Apparently even Miliband's wife is unsure what to say about his rapid rise to teen hearthrob status:
 
https://twitter.com/BBCNormanS/status/590871190484480001
 
Still, the Conservatives and their supporters were keen to get in on the action. A Twitter account called the Cameronettes has been set up with a picture of the Prime Minister being accosted by a rather high profile boyband. 
 
https://twitter.com/Cameronettes/status/590769846851395585
 
This led to the rise of another hashtag obsessing about one of our publicly elected officials.
 
https://twitter.com/NicolaNoodles/status/590886853785608193
 
This time it was apparently an even younger teenager – but not everyone was buying it.
 
https://twitter.com/mattleys/status/590814477710397441
 
https://twitter.com/samparkercouk/status/590814527786250240
 
https://twitter.com/dexychik/status/590815345100902400
 
https://twitter.com/foodorwarmth/status/590882646575702016
 
But the originator insisted they were genuine:
 
https://twitter.com/Cameronettes/status/590772028124307457
 
Some of the Cameronettes were more keen on reminding the electorate of Miliband's less flattering public appearances. 
 
https://twitter.com/jimmyshashin/status/590878395946442752
 
In fact it looks like the #Cameronettes has just spawned a rise in anti-Tory tweets:
 
https://twitter.com/Okwonga/status/590828192711180288
 
https://twitter.com/VTO2015/status/590861249388380161
 
https://twitter.com/AaronBastani/status/590851949303615489
 
https://twitter.com/George0sborne/status/590878096678596608
 
https://twitter.com/ParvaPower/status/590877628896301057
 
https://twitter.com/BestoftheMail/status/590858905577750528
 
https://twitter.com/StandardsDave/status/590800292377206784
 
https://twitter.com/BethanyBlack/status/590841934727512065 
 
https://twitter.com/jimmyshashin/status/590882728775659520
 
So who wins in the battle of the Milifandom vs the Cameronettes? Well this one at least appears to be more of a convincing victory for the Labour leader than May 7th is likely to turn out. 
 
https://twitter.com/iantendo/status/590883591875387392