TweetyourMEP - Debugging the democratic deficit – one tweet at the time In pre-digital democracies, citizens wishing to draw the attention of their representatives to something would write them letters; more recently, we upgraded to email. Online social networks take this exercise to a whole new level, because citizens and representatives use them to interact in public. If you tweet your MEP everyone can see you do it; and everyone can see whether that MEP engages with you, and how. So, don’t be shy and tweet away. You will help MEPs stay close to the citizenry. Sometimes the democratic deficit can be filled with 140 characters.