Obama-Biden 2008: Change We Can Twitter About.
Twitter can be many different things to many different people. For Max Gladwell, it is a channel for communicating, marketing, listening, and most of all interacting. This last part implies a two-way relationship. In Twitter terms, this means following and being followed.
When we get an alert via email that someone is following Max Gladwell, nine times out of 10 we follow back. The exceptions are for spam and others who have followed thousands of people before generating a mere handful of followers. We won’t go so far as to call this etiquette because it’s perfectly acceptable to be followed and not follow back. After all, just because we read your blog doesn’t mean you have to read ours. Nevertheless, it’s our personal preference to be followed by those we follow, if for no other reason than a simple way to cut down the noise.
Yesterday, we proceeded to un-follow all of our non-followers, and the truth is that it was cathartic. We cut loose over 900 from the follow column and immediately noticed it was easier to engage exclusively with our mutual followers…those with whom we can have two-way conversations, both privately and in the public feed. Because that’s how we prefer to use Twitter.
We still follow a handful that don’t reciprocate. Most of these are news feeds where there actually isn’t a person on the other end, which is fine. Because that’s another way to use Twitter. It’s a great way to keep an ear to the ground.
So this Tweets of the Week focuses on the 2008 Democratic National Convention (DNC) and Barack Obama’s historic speech at Mile High Stadium. This is one for the history books. Only with the benefit of many years of hindsight will we truly be able to appreciate how significant it was. When Obama enters the White House in January, we’ll start to mend our economy, our foreign policy, our energy policy, and countless other train wrecks left by Bush and Cheney. Looking back, the difference between August of 2008 and August of 2009 will appear eons apart in terms of the mood and morale of America. We’ll be back on the path of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, having strayed as far from it as was possible in an eight-year period.
And so these Obama-Biden 2008 Tweets are exclusively from the Tweeps we follow and who graciously follow us back.
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Barbara_Boxer Barack’s speech was so inspiring! Now it’s time to get to work! #dnc08 |
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Aronado @maxgladwell well, it’s all good man but, this reallocation of money is going to be interesting…just interesting..it is needed for sure |
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lamarguerite Obama=leader of a lifetime; let’s hope the majority of my fellow Americans see it as well. |
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CityMama  watched barack obama with @svmom. missed the twitter backchannel but wow. what an amazing speech. esp the second half. |
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GreenSmith It’s interesting, I usally take political speeches/promises w/a grain of salt, but damn, with the momentum he inspires, I believe Obama! |
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lizwebpage I admit I was worried. But Barack is doin’ it. He’s hitting it out of the park. YES WE CAN! |
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joemarchese @obama chills. amazing. |
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SeanDaily Obama is hitting this out of the park. |
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christackett @maxgladwell @geeknews check your obama tax cut here: http://alchemytoday.com/oba… |
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mriggen Obama will love you when you’re good, and get you good if you are bad. Very Commander-in-Chiefish. |
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sheagunther Nice, I loved Biden’s point to Obama. He’s smooth. |
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wildbell Barney Smith before Smith Barney. BRAVO! |
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ecopolitologist [ecopolitology] Text of Al Gore Speech at Democratic National Convention: Text of .. http://tinyurl.com/6o7jg6 |
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argam HAHA, McCain, you don’t even know what the Internet is and you launch a social network http://www.johnmccain.com/m… |
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LAist Where in LA to Watch Obama’s Acceptance Speech: The stage is set for Barack Obama to accept the Democr.. http://tinyurl.com/5ryw94 |
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TheOnion #dnc08 Will Barack Obama Overcome His Crippling Fear Of Public Speaking In Time For His Big Speech? http://is.gd/20Uq |
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balibones McCain better pick one HELL of a good speaker for VP! Lord knows he can put a crowd to sleep. Biden hit a home run tonight. |
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dwescott1 Demographics have played an unusually large role in this year’s election and Biden should improve Obama’s standing with Catholics. |
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teensygreen But to be fair, Clinton really got me into politics in ’92. Ended up going to college in DC. Lived up the street from Monica, woo hoo! |
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davidryal I’ve always been a fan of joe biden and his keen understanding of the principles of federalism, but i see choosing him as a colossal mistake |
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worleygirl Just watched Bill on YouTube. YES!!! Everything I was hoping he’d say! Especially the part about how they called HIM too inexperienced. Ha! |
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engagejoe ObamaFox just launched — Get #DNC08 Tweets/Flickr/YouTube/Blogs in your browser! http://www.obamafox.com Retweet @obamafox |
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2 responses so far ↓
1 Mark // Aug 29, 2008 at 3:41 pm
Obama is shit. McCain is shit. You actually believe you have a CHOICE??
Check out Ron Paul and his glorious beautiful message, straight from Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and George Washington.
2 Max Gladwell // Aug 29, 2008 at 5:43 pm
We love Ron Paul in principle, but no way we’re letting him near the White House. The vast majority of Paul supports I know have switched their allegiance to Obama.
But there’s always Bob Barr.
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