I’m not sure this corresponds to Australia too well. The opinion on Twitter is, for the most part, overwhelmingly critical of much of what the Federal Government does (and for much of it, I agree - this Government doesn’t have much of a legislative agenda, being largely reactionary. Much of the policy they do put out, like this, mass surveillance laws, etc. is not good. There are too many whiffs of corruption around, state capture by certain business sectors, generally poor executive governance, politicisation of the public service, etc.).

Twitter users here are (as a group) routinely insulted both in Parliament by Government MPs (usually as something like “that might be popular with the Twitter rabble, but…”) and in the media.

Increasingly the Government actually seems scared of it - for instance many grassroots groups (with names like “Voices of [electorate]”, “Voters of [electorate]”) starting on Twitter are showing potentially some real world clout, raising tens of thousands of dollars to campaign for independents and minor parties in electorates with the ruling party’s MPs. If they manage to swing the couple of percent some of these seats are held by, it could be several seats lost in the electorate. Just today Government figures were kicking up a stink, accusing them of breaching fundraising laws (they aren’t, according to them) which shows they’re at least somewhat rattled.