I about fell out of my chair when I read this:
Here it is in a recent news release from House Republican leader John Boehner: "PWNED: House GOP Dominates Twitter, YouTube, Social Media in Congress."
Believe it or not, he's right.
This is coming as a huge shock to me. I always thought that Democrats really owned the internet compared to the Republicans. According to Politifact, the GOP has PWNED us.
Twitter - PWNED
Youtube - PWNED
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Twitter
In Congress, he found, there are 132 members using Twitter actively: 89 Republicans and 43 Democrats. It breaks down like this: In the Senate, there are 14 Republicans using Twitter compared with 11 Democrats; and in the House, there are 75 Republicans using Twitter (42.13 percent of the Republican caucus) and 32 Democrats (12.45 percent of the Democratic caucus).
Who knew Republicans would beat us on Twitter? I'm kind of shocked!
Youtube
On Jan. 21, YouTube's CitizenTube posted a year-end wrap-up that showed 89 percent of Republicans and 74 percent of Democrats in Congress have started YouTube channels to engage their constituents. More importantly, people are watching the Republican channels much more often.
They own Youtube as well, but not by so much. We need to do something about this! I would argue that Democrats and Progressives PWNED the Republicans when it comes to blogging. Too bad they didn't study that portion. We need to do something about this! Social media is very important, especially to the younger generations! We cannot let the GOP take over on that front!
For GOP, dominance on Internet is Tweet revenge