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Friday, August 21, 2009

Conservatives Outmaneuvering Liberals on Twitter

This isn't really surprising and I'll explain why in a moment:
Liberal bloggers established online political activism, besting their conservative rivals during President George W. Bush's eight years in office. But conservatives are now finding great success 140 characters at a time. Even this week, the conservative organization Club For Growth promoted their Twitter account on their $1.2 million ad campaign against health care.

Even though President Obama and national Democrats use Twitter – the social micro blog that everyone from Ashton Kutcher and Shaquille O'Neal to Chuck Grassley and Newt Gingrich often use to directly speak to followers – Republicans have embraced the technology. And with major policy issues being debated and the midterm elections right around the corner, liberal bloggers acknowledge the GOP has the upper hand when it comes to using 140 character messages known as "tweets" to influence the discussion.

"While it is obvious the progressive blogosphere is superior, we are being out-organized on Twitter," said Gina Cooper, a blogger who helped organize Netroots Nation, an annual gathering of online liberal activists that met last week in Pittsburgh. "There is some catching up to do on the progressive side."

So, why do conservatives do better on Twitter than liberals? Because conservatives can articulate their message in 140 characters or less since it doesn't contain a bunch of emotional language. When you skip the adjectives and adverbs it's amazing how much you can say in a short space.

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3 comments:

LewArcher said...

And at the LA Times:

A correction from the print edition of today’s Los Angeles Times: “FOR THE RECORD: TV listings: The Prime-Time TV grid in Thursday’s Calendar section mistakenly listed MTV’s ‘Jackass’ show on the MSNBC cable schedule at 7 and 10 p.m. where instead MSNBC’s ‘Countdown With Keith Olbermann’ should have been listed.”

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/08/keith-olbermann-jackass-mixup.html

LewArcher said...

They made the same mistake with swapping Maddow with reruns of Ugly Betty.

Rick Moore said...

Those are way too funny, and in the case of Olbermann, very Freudian.