Update: An Astute Reader notes that NB’s statement doesn’t mention that it was an American client or that the elections in question were Tuesday’s primaries. Good point! I made that assumption, but NB’s clients are international, and this may have been an attack on someone...
Read More »As Michigan and Arizona voters head to the polls to choose a Republican presidential candidate, the folks at Daily Kos hope that at least a few liberals will be among them. Why? Because they’ll vote for Rick Santorum, of course — that is, if “Operation Hilarity” succeeds:...
Read More »Hi y’all, your editor was a bit under the weather a week or two back and almost let three good stories slip through the cracks. Never fear — they’re brought back from the dead below, appropriately enough on the night before Halloween. K Street suffers from Twitter jitters...
Read More »Update: See Kevin Bondelli’s reponse, #ColinDelanyIsRight About Hashtags. And, note that the original article turned ME into a hashtag. For an example of how the online communications ground is constantly changing under candidates’ feet, check out Adam Hochberg’s excellent...
Read More »Here’s something to check out: a former anti-gay-marriage activist is accusing the National Organization for Marriage of shady dealings on the internets, claiming that the organization formed a “SWAT team” of social media commenters to give the illusion of popular support to...
Read More »This in earlier today from social media firm PeekYou, whose PR people definite know how to get on top of a breaking story: the news that Newt may have fudged his Twitter following just a tad. If you’ve missed out on the fun so far, Gawker published a story yesterday in which a former...
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