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===Twitter=== On 24 September 2009, the show launched its [[Twitter]] presence and the show's presenter has regularly announced its presence on Twitter since late 2009. Using the Twitter ID "@bbcquestiontime"<ref>{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/bbcquestiontime%7ctitle=Twitter%7cwork=twitter.com%7ctitle=Twitter%7cwork=twitter.com|title=Twitter|work=twitter.com}}</ref> it tweeted using the #bbcqt hashtag. By early 2010, this had become one of the UK's most active "Twitter backchannels" to a TV show. @bbcquestiontime claimed 10,000 tweets had been sent around the show on 7 October 2010. The show had over 40,000 followers on Twitter by October 2010 and this exceeded 50,000 on the evening of 3 February 2011. On 9 June 2011, ''Question Time'' became one of the most-tweeted about shows of the week in the UK, with 5,000 tweets during the programme, with tweeting continuing through to the next day.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tvgenius.net/socialtvstats/ |title=Social TV Statistics |access-date=7 January 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111125140921/http://www.tvgenius.net/socialtvstats/ |archive-date=25 November 2011 }}</ref> In addition to the more sober analysis of the discussion, ''Question Time'' also has a parallel Twitter backchannel based on the spoof account Dimblebot - purportedly a robot version of Dimbleby - where the entire premise of the programme is claimed to be a demonstration of Dimbleby's ability to defeat the panel. It became clear during the riot special that David Dimbleby knows of the existence of Dimblebot and the associated Dimbledance.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2011/09/05/best-uk-twitter-accounts_n_949315.html|title=Ten Of The Best UK Twitter Feeds|work=The Huffington Post UK|date=5 September 2011}}</ref><ref>[http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2011-08-12/dimblebot-helps-question-time-special-draw-35m-viewers Jack Seale, "DIMBLEBOT helps Question Time special draw 3.5m viewers"], ''Radio Times'', 12 August 2011.</ref> The @bbcquestiontime account now<ref>As of 3 June 2019.</ref> has over 500,000 followers.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://twitter.com/bbcquestiontime|title=BBC Question Time (@bbcquestiontime) {{!}} Twitter|website=twitter.com|access-date=27 March 2017}}</ref> In March 2020, [[Sayeeda Warsi, Baroness Warsi]] and MP [[Debbie Abrahams]] sent an open letter to the programme's runners, after Question Time uploaded anti-immigrants Twitter comments from a far-right supporter who allegedly also ran for the [[National Front (UK)|National Front]] and showed support for the [[English Defence League]]. Baroness Warsi and Abrahams wrote in their letter: "We understand the producers of the show seek out ‘controversial members of the audience – including those of far-right campaign groups – in an attempt to curry large ratings... By providing a platform for views that are racist or sexist, the institution is normalising them and contributing to the coarsening of public debate and the growing toxicity of our politics."<ref>{{Cite news|last1=Townsend|first1=Mark|url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/mar/22/bbc-question-time-far-right-audience|title=BBC's Question Time accused of giving platform to far right|date=2020-03-22|work=The Observer|access-date=2020-03-22|last2=Thorpe|first2=Vanessa|language=en-GB|issn=0029-7712}}</ref>
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