Twitter Attempts Yield Mixed Results In D.C.
NationalJournal.com's Lucas Grindley writes:
With everyone from "Meet The Press" moderator David Gregory to Sen. John McCain suddenly fiending for Twitter, it didn't take long before the media came up with a bevy of cute puns and, just as quickly, top 10 lists of the most vital political feeds to follow. The Los Angeles Times and Politico have so far sounded off with their own rankings of top feeds, but the geek world hasn't been much impressed. Washington social media expert Nick O'Neill used his blog to dismiss the Politico top 10 as "an arbitrary list which was highly effective linkbait." Politico's list included influential politicians, such as Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Al Gore, but real-world cred doesn't necessarily translate into tweets.
The Times created its ranking based on the number of people signed up to read each twitterer's posts -- essentially equating Twitter "followers" with the much-ballyhooed contest to rake in "Facebook friends" during the presidential campaign. Government consultant Mark Drapeau took to his blog to call this "an even worse list" than Politico's. So he wrote up his own based on "my own experiences and some private polling of the Twitter community." Fellow blogger O'Neill made that list. Karl Rove did not. So what is a Twitter newbie -- like one of the congressmen who didn't type their way through President Obama's speech -- supposed to do? How are they supposed to know what they're missing or who to emulate? Read the full story here.
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