Twitter has been very good for conservatives.
I’m working on a theory as to why that is but so far I think it has to do with conservatives being more effective putting ideas and creative thoughts into 140 characters or less.
Part of it, I think, is the ability to be clever and creative in such a limited format; the left typically just repeats the same phrases over and over, and it shows.
I think another part is that, compared to say, Facebook, Twitter is followed by interest, not association. That is, on Facebook, I tend to shy away from things like politics, because they are subjects guaranteed to alienate roughly half of the people on my feed.
Twitter, in comparison, seems to be more used for expressing what’s on your mind rather than what’s going on in your life, so to speak. As such, it seems to invite more open debate. Also, through the use of mentions and tending tags, it’s easy to get involved in the hot topic(s) of the day.
Good point.