{"id":495,"date":"2009-08-28T17:19:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-28T17:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bestdatacompany.info\/asgroupinc\/?p=115"},"modified":"2009-08-28T17:19:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-28T17:19:00","slug":"does-twitter-favor-conservatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asgroupinc.com\/does-twitter-favor-conservatives\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Twitter favor conservatives?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Johanna Neuman
The Los Angeles Times<\/em><\/p>\n

The White House announced with some fanfare over the weekend that its Twitter account had passed the 1 million mark.<\/p>\n

\u201cA million followers \u2013 nice,\u201d the White House @whitehouse<\/a> wrote in a tweet sent out Sunday afternoon. \u201cWhat would you like to see more of from this feed? Photos? Quotes? Cowbell? Tell us @whitehouse.\u201d<\/p>\n

Big deal. Arizona Sen. John McCain<\/a>, who lost to Barack Obama <\/a>in the 2008 election, passed the 1 million mark six weeks ago. He declared that tweeting, which for him was novel, was “a phenomenal way of communicating.”<\/p>\n

Like most things that come out of Silicon Valley, Twitter was assumed to be in a purview of the left, another tool for tech-savvy liberal netroots to use as they besieged the political system in the name of progressive change, in 140-character bites.<\/p>\n

But the left has usually used Twitter to promote ideas, according to Alan Rosenblatt, of the Center for American Progress Action Fund. “We have a lot of amazing progressives on Twitter,” he told Maine’s online news source, the Exception. But, he added, there had been “nothing that brings everyone together.<\/a>“By contrast, he said, the right has been using Twitter to create new pressure points in politics. Conservatives have a website, Top Conservatives on Twitter, that ranks various right-wing tweeters (former House Speaker Newt Gingrich currently rides on top)<\/a>, and offers pointers on how to organize.<\/p>\n

Liberals are fighting back — Rosenblatt has created a rival website, TopProg.org<\/a> — but it’s in its infancy.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile conservatives seem to be having more fun with Twitter.<\/p>\n

When Republicans staged a protest last summer and refused to leave for summer recess, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi<\/a> simply adjourned the session and turned out the lights, effectively turning off the C-SPAN cameras. So several GOP stalwarts started tweeting an account of what was going on from the House floor. They developed a following and prompted conservative commentator Michelle Malkin to call Twitter “the new gathering place for conservative activism.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n

To read more, visit http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/washington\/2009\/08\/does-twitter-favor-conservatives-.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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