Posted on 05/15/2012 9:21:00 PM PDT by STARWISE
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There are five crucial reasons for this:
1. Twitter is an equalizer in an eco-system where MSM types are no longer insulated in their bubble. We can now use Twitter to reach out to the media in order to challenge their biases, facts, lies, spin, and hypocrisy.
The media is now accountable to their customers and you can bet this has an effect. Even the corrupt media types (which is most of them) are aware that these challenges posed on Twitter are potentially being tweeted and re-tweeted to thousands of readers. That's hard to ignore.
2. More and more news narratives start on Twitter. Nothing is more dangerous to the left than everyday Americans talking amongst themselves, and today, more and more news narratives start in these conversations, not in MSM editorial meetings.
What's especially revolutionary is that this new reality means the news media can't start narratives at will like they once could. They can seed the clouds and hope to make rain, but if everyday Americans dismiss or, better yet, shoot down these offerings, chances are it's not going anywhere.
Furthermore, the only way the MSM can even attempt to filter or control Twitter memes not started by them is to cover whatever it is we're talking about. And this, my friends, is how stories are now able to jump over the fire break of Media Matters and those corrupt fact-checkers.
3. The media no longer gets the last word. As we saw with The Washington Post hit-piece on Romney last week, if the media attempts to spin or lie, we simply create a furious counter-narrative about their spin and lies that consumes as much of the narrative oxygen as the original story.
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(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
The dreaded red “X” in a little box...
Sigh, yes it expires. the URL looks something like...
http://d3j5vwomefv46c.cloudfront.net/photos/full/580481857.jpg?key=1911963&Expires=1337157397&Key-Pair-Id=APKAIYVGSUJFNRFZBBTA&Signature=fb5Qu-Zyt~S-PiznKMB1ooBo1VdZe0-1kHws0feq75J4VDkPe09mMEnaFyZ7WfJtxICF0PA2eKCJYwDhiPS3mH43tM5gKWR2NBeKhf0wN051bV2pgMH~IaE5GFWUpIq43jSf-Ki3vgLIUBr-OTmYmvoABbLQqEGXHH3DqeVFsk8_
The Expires=1337157397 is probably and epoch time date for how long the tweetie thing is valid. Mine is cached locally so I don't see it broken unless I open the image in a new tab. The only way to make it stick is to capture the jpg and then host it your own self. Too much work for me. Oh well...
Inviting all and sundry to visit "MySpace"?
That's what I'm afraid of .. LOL
But do they tweat?
I am not a birther, but this is amazing news... the braindrained media will not cover it so we should!
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