Paul Wells channels SDA;
I think there is. I should admit, as anyone who follows me on Twitter knows, that I’m writing inside a great big social-network glass house. I tweet a lot. But then, I’m not trying to win an election. And people who are trying to win an election, especially senior strategists, should think about the effect Twitter has on their own behaviour and on their ability to get a coherent message out.
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And because the people churning up all this… noise…. live inside Twitter’s tempo and its assumptions and its peculiar etiquette, they lose sight of the wider world, where real people live real lives and think about politics maybe once or twice a day.
Politicians be warned: the only people on Twitter for politics are people who want to hurt you.
this is a group hell bent to ruin Ontario
http://workingfamiliesexposed.ca/
Kate,
You are one wise and perceptive woman. Wells just had to get his snark quotient worn out before he was able to get some perspective on the medium.
“..the only people on Twitter for politics are people who want to hurt you.”
This Paul Wells said that?
http://bcblue.wordpress.com/2013/09/06/another-liberal-friend-of-macleans-paul-wells/
And the only people on Turdo la Doo’s sofa are people who like getting lightly spanked.
Whatever Wells is trying to say,any article, I end up with the same conclusion:…what an arrogant self absorbed twit.
We’ve got another such dipshit here. Murray Mandryk is a sweetie pie of CBC Radio (Sask Edition). You wouldn’t believe the adulation accorded him by Shiela and the rest of the leftist cadre! (I only check by on occasion to keep an eye on the enemy, then routinely disinfect my laptop! Eewww!).
Wells is absolutely right. Twitter is a wasteland for those trying to run political campaigns for two reasons: 1. you can’t say anything meaningful in 140 characters, not even good political slogans; and 2. it has absolutely no duration. Nothing sticks, it’s all just meaningless noise.
And it took him this long to figure it out??? Pffft….