Debate night with Twitter.
Over 2 hours in and I still can’t stop reading Twitter’s live debate discussion. The updates ranged from respectful and well thought out to pointless and idiotic (e.g. “Michelle Obama makes Janet Reno look hot”).
I’ve been following Obama on Twitter for a while, but I was curious to see if John McCain had a presence there as well. It turns out that he does. Rather than go on about what I found, I thought I’d let the numbers do the talking:
John McCain
5 updates
1,035 followers
Tweeting since September 19, 2008
Barack Obama
206 updates
86,556 followers
Tweeting since April 27, 2007
* stats accurate at the time of this post.
What does this have to do with the election? Probably not much. It does, in my opinion, further illustrate how out of touch John McCain is when dealing with technology and communication. In spite of the “fact” that he helped invent the Blackberry.
–Gordy
..and have you noticed the awkwardness of the actual posts? While I know it’s not John posting, I get the impression that whoever is, must be looking at the keyboard and thinking “so if I just type a sentence, it will appear on the screen? now how can that be?)
In any event, I appreciate the effort by his campaign. But it just feels and looks so odd, that it just makes him look older.
Maybe he should be on Friendster?
It DOES make a helluva difference if these “youngsters who are wired” all exercise their right to VOTE!!!