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Why Conservatives Must Join the Battle for America On Twitter
Breitbart ^ | 5-15-12 | John Nolte

Posted on 05/15/2012 9:21:00 PM PDT by STARWISE

*snip*

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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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012; election; elections; fightthethugs; getinvolved; twitter
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To: JimRed
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...

61 posted on 05/16/2012 12:07:56 PM PDT by Mycroft Holmes (<= Mash name for HTML Xampp PHP C JavaScript primer. Programming for everyone.)
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To: JimRed
“Tweeting” on “Twitter” is part of the homosexual agenda. After all, what could possibly sound more gay?

Inviting all and sundry to visit "MySpace"?

62 posted on 05/16/2012 12:20:46 PM PDT by kevkrom (Those in a rush to trample the Constitution seem to forget that it is the source of their authority.)
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To: MattinNJ
You can and you will love it...

That's what I'm afraid of .. LOL

63 posted on 05/16/2012 12:31:40 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: BuffaloJack

But do they tweat?


64 posted on 05/16/2012 12:35:27 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: BuffaloJack
Really? Why not? Time to get in the dirt and defeat the enemy...or you can sit on the sidelines and whine and moan. Time to go into the enemies camp!
65 posted on 05/16/2012 10:13:15 PM PDT by hope
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To: Semper911; All
I was inspired by the conversation re: Twitter the other day and was thinking, today's Druge Report/Breitbart story is a perfect example of what we should be sending out all day long.... 1991 promotional booklet produced by Obama’s then-literary agency touts Obama as “born in Kenya”

I am not a birther, but this is amazing news... the braindrained media will not cover it so we should!

66 posted on 05/17/2012 12:37:36 PM PDT by GizzyGirl
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