While Democratic blogs have far out-powered and out-maneuvered GOP blogs over the past several years, the Democratic party has always been reticent about, and towards, its virtual echo chamber. Heck, just two days ago we learned that President Obama publicly criticized the liberal blogosphere, and equated us with the conservative blogs.
And now it seems, that reticence is carrying over into the use of Twitter.
Nearly twice as many Republicans as Democrats have accounts on the social networking platform Twitter (101 compared with 57), and the GOP dominates Twitter usage by an even wider margin, according to a report released this week by the Congressional Research Service that analyzed two weeklong periods in July and August. During those spans, congressional Republicans posted 932 messages — or tweets — compared with 255 for Democrats, CRS analysts found.We had, still have, a great thing going. We created our own FOX News. And Democrats seem all too willing to let it all slip away.
Twitter allows users to text short messages of 140 characters or fewer from their phones, BlackBerrys or computers to their profile pages and their followers’ phones and computers. And though some experts question the effectiveness of Twitter as a political communication tool and more than a few lawmakers have already experienced the downside of the unfiltered communication it offers, Republican communications staffers have actively encouraged their lawmakers to tweet away. And so they have.
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