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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."
If it's to be a really great campaign tool, then surely it should be something that a large percentage of the population use. I don't think that's Twitter somehow.
On the rosier side (for Twitter), overdemand means that the service is popular to the extent that its original hardware can't keep up. This problem can be solved simply by hardware improvements. Twitter would be far less usable and less valuable if nobody wanted to use it.
The Hillary Clinton campaign began sending out 'tweets' and eventually had over 4,000 followers. The Barack Obama campaign did the same thing and got 44,000 followers. That says something about the success of the two campaigns in using new technology.
Perhaps that says something about the age of the people supporting either campaign. How many 40yo stay at home moms are getting tweets?
Religion and politics, without the flame. godgab.org
>USENET doesn't have a 160 character limit.
Just think how much better and more readable some newsgroups would be if it did.Some mornings it's hardly worth chewing through the restraints to get out of bed.