[Mad Dawgg]

A goodly bit of the Tea Party success is due to they way they communicate. A lot of it is done on Twitter and Facebook and blogs.

Almost zero cost for a realtime communication network literally millions can partake of.

When Santelli spoke his famous Quote on CNBC I happened to be monitoring Twitter's Conservative hashtags (#TCOT and others)... you could literally see a digital tsunami building in those first few hours afterward.

The #TCOT monitoring page started lagging to the point it was almost an hour behind on updates and Twitter actually got overloaded not long after that.

But then once things settled down you could see the Conservative hashtag activity was up nearly triple and it was all about organizing Tea Parties all over America. And it stayed that way for months afterward...

[American Constitutionalist]

" When Santelli spoke his famous Quote on CNBC I happened to be monitoring Twitter's Conservative hashtags (#TCOT and others)... you could literally see a digital tsunami building in those first few hours afterward. "

Santelli's comment was more or less the shot that was heard around the world as in the official start of today's Tea Party movement, however, give credit were credit is due, there have been American patriots in the trenches fighting this battle long before Santelli made it official with his comments.