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Nothing surprising. Just shows they were astute enough to realize undecided voters and unlikely voters aren’t watching Twitter. It’s pretty much for influencing activists and the press. And the influence with activists is to get them to help influence the press.The pres wants to get stories out first and promote their articles. It’s not for the same audience watching the nightly TV news broadcast, let alone people who mostly skip the news altogether. Though I can’t blame the Romney team entirely for caution, given how often prominent people have embarrassed themselves with a dumb tweet.
Exactly. The only thing surprising here is that they had the audacity to say that, essentially, twitter is a great way to reach a tight little clique of people who call themselves journalists, but not much else.
That’s dangerously close to pointing out that Twitter Journalists live in their own reality, and boy, say something like that and twitter is going to go all abuzz.