The only people that I know that use Twitter are either to young to vote or too vapid and self-involved to bother.
Just throwing this out there, why not unsubscribe from the twits that are constantaly tweeting political crap. We already know that 100% of what comes out of news reporters & politicians mouths is either a lie or pushing an agenda.
The political signs just went up yesterday. I’ll see if I can capture some interesting photographs about them. That’s about the only thing that interests me in this election of Tweedle-Dum vs. Tweedle-Dee. 🙁
Good insight in the “told you so” reference. You nailed down key points of my profile.
I have been a political junky for a very long time. I follow politics and the actions of politicians from local through to international aspects. I do believe though the more localized the politics are the more relevant they are to me so I tend to spend more effort in keeping myself up to date in that area. I find SDA a to cover a wide swath of interest to me and as such visit quite often daily.
Thanks Kate and co-bloggers for this informative and entertaining site.
I’ve found twitter to be a great way to see what my kids think is *all that*
and Andrew Breitbart’s retweeting of his adversaries “best work” was illuminating, so the chance of an own goal is high for some…
From a few hundred updates each day, a few are worth reading the links posted. 🙂
I laugh at those (incl. me at one point) that think the online world makes a difference in any way, shape or form.
You can look at the recent liberal coronation. Certain liberal schmucks demanded blogger accreditation. Result? Maybe four blog posts for each weekend. Instead, the Liberals lost probably $1500 in ticket sales by giving away passes to people who didn’t create a tickets worth of content. They certainly enjoyed stroking their egos though.
Howard Dean proved the point about online activists, nothing has changed since then. Politicals online are a self-selecting group of people that aren’t representative of the public in general.
For the most part I agree Kate with one exception.
All us regular people who are too busy for twitter or whatever idiocies the mostly leftbot commentators are spouting, will come to twitter or any other media when some important event is occuring. ie: Rand Paul’s recent filibuster.
The media needs to ask itself, why is that?
Twitter is to political reality what the Ottawa Press Corps is to journalism.
Just different ways to package up an echo chamber.
the car U drive, the cloths U wear, the house U live in, your friends, the paper U read, the books u read, your job/profession, and now twitter/tweeter/FB and what ever the h3ll U want, are simply tools for an outsider to use to define U, and that is about the only use I see for twitter/tweeters/FB!!!!
and yes, I do use FB, and Kate is absolutely rite about FB being a piss poor place to discuss politics. I’m as blunt on FB as I am in person:-))))
Astrotweeting?
This is from the Wiki / Political Career section, on Calgary mayor Nenshi. It was widely viewed here that his social pages, both Facebook & Twitter, were strong contributors to his campaign, both of which, are available “free”. With the new election of Trudeau the Younger as head of the Libranos, I’m “troubled” by it, and that the voting age includes this somewhat politically active demographic.
“Days before the election, a Calgary Herald poll showed that Nenshi’s grassroots campaign continued to gain momentum as he was shown to have 30 per cent support among decided voters, placing him in a statistical tie with McIver and Higgins. He polled the strongest amongst younger voters, believed to be the result of his social media campaign. (sic) Nenshi’s surge in popularity carried through to the election itself, when he earned 40 per cent of the vote, finishing nearly 28,000 votes ahead of second-placed McIver.”
I wish it was just photos of kids and their buddies drinking in the park.
I suspect that, with minor adjustments, the same could be said about all the comments on Twitter regarding Federal politics. At least, every time I drop in on those feeds, it seems to be the same old dreary tweeters going on and on and on about their favourite hobby-horse / whipping-boy…
What was that charity? Oh yeah, tweets for twats…sorry, I mean toys for tots.
Evidently Vancouver’s online professional stock touts are moonlighting at election time.
The only people that I know that use Twitter are either to young to vote or too vapid and self-involved to bother.
Just throwing this out there, why not unsubscribe from the twits that are constantaly tweeting political crap. We already know that 100% of what comes out of news reporters & politicians mouths is either a lie or pushing an agenda.
The political signs just went up yesterday. I’ll see if I can capture some interesting photographs about them. That’s about the only thing that interests me in this election of Tweedle-Dum vs. Tweedle-Dee. 🙁
Good insight in the “told you so” reference. You nailed down key points of my profile.
I have been a political junky for a very long time. I follow politics and the actions of politicians from local through to international aspects. I do believe though the more localized the politics are the more relevant they are to me so I tend to spend more effort in keeping myself up to date in that area. I find SDA a to cover a wide swath of interest to me and as such visit quite often daily.
Thanks Kate and co-bloggers for this informative and entertaining site.
I’ve found twitter to be a great way to see what my kids think is *all that*
and Andrew Breitbart’s retweeting of his adversaries “best work” was illuminating, so the chance of an own goal is high for some…
From a few hundred updates each day, a few are worth reading the links posted. 🙂
I laugh at those (incl. me at one point) that think the online world makes a difference in any way, shape or form.
You can look at the recent liberal coronation. Certain liberal schmucks demanded blogger accreditation. Result? Maybe four blog posts for each weekend. Instead, the Liberals lost probably $1500 in ticket sales by giving away passes to people who didn’t create a tickets worth of content. They certainly enjoyed stroking their egos though.
Howard Dean proved the point about online activists, nothing has changed since then. Politicals online are a self-selecting group of people that aren’t representative of the public in general.
For the most part I agree Kate with one exception.
All us regular people who are too busy for twitter or whatever idiocies the mostly leftbot commentators are spouting, will come to twitter or any other media when some important event is occuring. ie: Rand Paul’s recent filibuster.
The media needs to ask itself, why is that?
Twitter is to political reality what the Ottawa Press Corps is to journalism.
Just different ways to package up an echo chamber.
the car U drive, the cloths U wear, the house U live in, your friends, the paper U read, the books u read, your job/profession, and now twitter/tweeter/FB and what ever the h3ll U want, are simply tools for an outsider to use to define U, and that is about the only use I see for twitter/tweeters/FB!!!!
and yes, I do use FB, and Kate is absolutely rite about FB being a piss poor place to discuss politics. I’m as blunt on FB as I am in person:-))))
Astrotweeting?
This is from the Wiki / Political Career section, on Calgary mayor Nenshi. It was widely viewed here that his social pages, both Facebook & Twitter, were strong contributors to his campaign, both of which, are available “free”. With the new election of Trudeau the Younger as head of the Libranos, I’m “troubled” by it, and that the voting age includes this somewhat politically active demographic.
“Days before the election, a Calgary Herald poll showed that Nenshi’s grassroots campaign continued to gain momentum as he was shown to have 30 per cent support among decided voters, placing him in a statistical tie with McIver and Higgins. He polled the strongest amongst younger voters, believed to be the result of his social media campaign. (sic) Nenshi’s surge in popularity carried through to the election itself, when he earned 40 per cent of the vote, finishing nearly 28,000 votes ahead of second-placed McIver.”
I wish it was just photos of kids and their buddies drinking in the park.
I suspect that, with minor adjustments, the same could be said about all the comments on Twitter regarding Federal politics. At least, every time I drop in on those feeds, it seems to be the same old dreary tweeters going on and on and on about their favourite hobby-horse / whipping-boy…
What was that charity? Oh yeah, tweets for twats…sorry, I mean toys for tots.
Evidently Vancouver’s online professional stock touts are moonlighting at election time.