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 ...
America will win or lose because of a campaign on Twitter? Please.
.. Ping!
I am a former twitter-hater who has been kept up past my bedtime lately laughing out loud at conservatives kicking lefty a$$ on Twitter.
Conservatives are much better at this forum...lefties like to rant and whine but 140 characters isn’t enough for them.
Did you read the entire article?
Believe me, beneath the radar, it’s staggering
what’s going on there .. it’s becoming a largew
news facilitator, vehicle and impact generator.
I totally agree. I wish FR, would too. I’d be active on it.
Let me know when you tweet!
Sorry, as an old fart, I guess I miss the significance of twitter, facebook and other such entities.
Is this article a joke? Conservatives ROCK on Twitter! Just ask Michelle Malkin.
It’s a WHOLE different world out there with Twitter and social media trumping the old lying/spinning networks and standard media.. and at last leveling the playing field .. and hurray!
As an old female fart, I am really sorry for you. Try and keep up, techno is grovie man.
Think of it this way....
The Obama folks put out a talking point on twitter. They fancy themselves the young, hip, tech-savvy types.
Only lately? Everything they put out there winds up getting hijacked by us. We don’t just hijack it...we make it funny too. They are getting Alinskeyed!
So the lefties wind up quickly abandoning that hashtag so they can attempt to create another one...only to fail in similar fashion.
It’s a beautiful thing. It truly is!
BTW....when I checked twitter tonight, Elizabeth Warren was just getting HAMMERED!!! LOL!
woman of color indeed!
LOL ..I don’t tweet, but I have lurked and followed stories and tips, but more just this and other articles I’ve read about the old media agendas that were. destroyed by folks on Twitter. It truly has leveled the playing field, and all I know is there’s LOTS going on via that and FB, which I don’t do, that’s making HUGE waves of impact.
Apparently, when stuff builds up on Twitter .. and in the case of the libs, they’ll plant something on Twitter, which will build and get more play, then slowly you’ll see CNN or MSNBC pick it up and that’s how THEIR lies become THEIR news. Well, on Twitter (like the eating and rooftop dog stories and the MR bully story) those were dissected, truth shown or lies ridiculed and those propaganda that the MSM wanted were pummeled and destroyed on Twitter. And, that’s how the playing field has been leveled .. ‘cause everyone’s equal there.
Read the whole Breitbart piece ..it’s very enlightening, and I justo know there’s a whole world of stuff going on out there that we only finally get to learn after much twitterwarring.
Since my retirement I have found a home in the wonderful world of programming. Doing quite well and consider my knowledge of current technologies up to date ... just don’t see the advantage in telling everyone about myself and my next scratch or itch. Groovy.
Fauxcohontas !! ROFL! What a simpering, whimpering, lying gerbil.
my cheekbones are high! I really MUST do a geneology search starting pronto!
Think of it this way....
The Obama folks put out a talking point on twitter. They fancy themselves the young, hip, tech-savvy types.
Only lately? Everything they put out there winds up getting hijacked by us. We don’t just hijack it...we make it funny too. They are getting Alinskeyed!
So the lefties wind up quickly abandoning that hashtag so they can attempt to create another one...only to fail in similar fashion.
It’s a beautiful thing. It truly is!
You persuaded me. I’ll start tomorrow. Thanks.
I do not even have a Twitter account - no point.
Yes .. you absolutely must!
Who knows what govt handouts
you could get.
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