John Edwards USING Twitter
I just watched something truly epic happen via Twitter.
The John Edwards Campaign via it’s Twitter page (I don’t know if Senator Edwards is actually doing the twittering or not, but it wouldn’t surprise me if he was) made an announcement that it was going to go Carbon Neutral. I thought this was a great idea and Robert Scoble did as well and posted a question asking how they planned on doing that.
The amazing moment happened when within minutes and answer was posted back.
Almost real time interaction with a political candidate! I don’t have any idea where Edwards is right now, but I know that Scoble is in Austin and here I am in Boston.
I REALLY hope other politicians step up their game and begin embracing new media across the board beyond just making announcements via YouTube and such. It’s quickly becoming obvious to me that Campaign 2008 is going to be the most wired campaign ever and it’s going to be fun to be part of it.
The screen shot is what I could fit on one screen of the conversation. Readable when bigger.
March 13th, 2007 at 4:06 pm |
Given the tone of the twitters, and comparing it to John Edwards’s voice in his podcasts, I’ve come to believe he is writing those twitters.
And I think he’s at home today: http://twitter.com/johnedwards/statuses/7450881. It’s cool to see him respond so quickly from his dining room table, or wherever.
March 13th, 2007 at 4:07 pm |
I expect this to happen in 2020 in Germany
(ok, Angela Merkel has a video podcast but then again it’s not really a podcast in the sense of communicating with her)
But beside that a cool thing and hopefully I am wrong.
March 13th, 2007 at 4:18 pm |
[…] I just watched what Senator Edwards did on Twitter and I’m still smiling from it. I was happy to see so many candidates announce their running via YouTube and such, but what’s next. Where do you take the campaign from here? How do you FULLY leverage the conversation and embrace the community? That’s what I want to talk about. […]
March 13th, 2007 at 7:28 pm |
I added Edwards as a friend on my twitter account (http://www.twitter.com/ioannusdeverani), and almost immediately, he befriended me. I asked him if it was a bot, or if he was just really fast, and he said, “FAST!”. I guess he is really into the twitter thing. Congratulations to him.
See more info on my post here: http://ioannusdeverani.wordpress.com/2007/03/13/update-john-edwards-on-twitter/
March 14th, 2007 at 7:00 am |
This after BusinessWeek blog post complaining that Edwards had gone “dark” on Twitter. Heh. Good to see it
March 14th, 2007 at 1:32 pm |
hi CC I’ve been listening to your podcasts at work trying to find a song i remembered from a while back and finally caught up to it today. but i can’t have it loud enough to actually hear who it is - i wanna buy the recording though, so if you can let me know? it’s on the “help me, help the biddies” episode of U turn Cafe, and the song’s lyrics (might be the title as well) go, “he’s a hell of a boy, but only half of a man”
ok? thank you CC
April 7th, 2007 at 2:29 pm |
[…] The understated interface of Twitter makes the playing field surprisingly level. A few weeks ago, popular blogger Robert Scoble posted a public question to Presidential candidate John Edwards. Using Twitter, Edwards responded within minutes. The idea of text conversations between celebrities has been around since Carnegie Mellon’s infamous and now-defunct Forum 2000, where artificially intelligent SOMADs representing Ayn Rand, Pikachu, George W. Bush, Jesus Christ, and others collaborated to answer questions from the public. […]