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Twitter As a Campaigning Tool

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the smtp-aint-sexy-no-more dept.

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."

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  1. OMG, theyve invented Usenet by Gothmolly · · Score: 5, Interesting

    So if I understand this right, its a sort of forum where people with similar ideas can communicate and contribute?

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  2. Re:Useful? by DigitAl56K · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Twitter is great because you don't receive spam from people you don't follow. There is nothing more annoying right now than all the campaigners flooding the web with political spam. Spamming on Twitter ends up in people unfollowing you quickly, so I'd be interested to know how exactly it can act as a campaigning tool except to people who are already your supporters?

  3. organic crowd-driven obama commercials by ryanjarvinen · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I recently put together a workflow for allowing users to create an Obama commercial using their own voice: http://www.earfl.com/obama. You use a phone as the upload tool and then email the finished product to your friends. I think hearing a friend's voice and their reasons for supporting a candidate can be much more convincing than seeing a twitter feed of talking points from "campaign central". Try it out, No login or registration required! (disclaimer: I wrote parts of earfl.com)