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Twitter As a Campaigning Tool
labourstart writes "Meetup.com wasn't designed to help presidential candidates and Twitter wasn't supposed to be a campaigning tool. But LabourStart's Eric Lee argues that Twitter may be just what unions and other campaigning organizations have been looking for — a way to cut through the background noise and reach their members."
I'm getting so tired of having to read detailed documents that describe a candidate's position on complex and important issues. A distillation of once-meaningful information into painless and catchy sound bites is just what the doctor ordered.
It isn't strictly linear. When Scoble blows his nose, there are 25,000 people that want to know about it. If he blows his nose and takes a wizz within a few minutes of each other, he generates thousands and thousands of messages in the same period of time that many thousands of users generate approximately 2 messages.
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
Am I the only one who thought the headline was accusing our good friend twitter of being a tool who is campaigning?
You twitter and waste the hours in an offhand way. And then one day you find ten years have got behind you.
Useful? no. There is nothing useful about twitter. Twitter is for making fucking twits look and act like fucking twats. Yes, yes, troll, whatever. What can I say, people who twit look and act like twats.
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Now we have one more campaigning tool in the race.
I would think that candidates would want distance themselves from anything that makes them look like twits. If they were to make some statement on twitter that caused a stir, then suddenly it's "Did you see the latest twit-cast?". Jon Stewart, Colbert, Leno, et al, would have a field day.
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
Well done...
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Digg is the ultimate campaigning tool. No. Boingboing is the ultimate campaigning tool. No. Damn day traders.
If nothing else, a 160 character limit would make the binary groups rather pointless. Of course, I don't see that as a problem.
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If twitter and his sockpuppets could just keep their posts under 140 characters, I wouldn't mind as much.
>>USENET doesn't have a 160 character limit.
I totally agree.>Just think how much better and more readable some newsgroups would be if it did.
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