Misrepresenting Twitter Behavior
The Next Right has decided to play on people’s ignorance of how Twitter works to disparage the Obama campaign. They claim that BarackObama (Twitter account) is “voluntarily” following Sarah Palin’s Vagina on Twitter.
Bogus!
The Obama campaign uses auto-follow on Twitter, so anyone who follows the campaign is automatically followed by the campaign. Next Right’s comment that “‘following’ is a voluntary action” is totally wrong in this case.
With over 86,000 followers, there is no way this is a manually managed program.
In fact, given the auto-follow setting, whoever owns this Sarah Palin twitter account just had to follow Obama to become followed by him.
Let’s not play on the fact that most people are unfamiliar with how Twitter works and focus on real news.
September 22nd, 2008 at 11:42 pm
I just had to stop reading The Next Right. I felt like I had to shower after every time I read it.