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Howdy! We're on a bit of an NBC-style delay tonight! Mitt Romney's so awkward that he could stop a clock in its tracks...too bad we aren't and couldn't do the same for tonight's diary :).
[I wasn't scheduled to write tonight but I haven't seen an ONN diary up, so I'm going for it.]TomP and I both posted ONN diaries simultaneously. His is funnier, go check it out :)
1. @ONNdailykos is now on Twitter!
2. Obama Twitter Study
3. A Tea Party Conservative This Way Tweets...
1. @ONNdailykos is now on Twitter!
I know, I know, you've been waiting for this since the Olympics got off to a great big bang—so here it is:
Obama Nightly News is now officially on Twitter as
@ONNdailykos!
The story with the handle is that ObamaNightlyNews is too long for Twitter (boo!), and ONN is already in use by the Onion News Network (cry me a river). So ONNdailykos it is! Expect plenty of pro-Obama and anti-Romney tweets, retweets, exchanges, and the like! I'll coordinate with TomP about how to divy up access to the editors so that we get a lively crop of folks contributing behind the scenes. It will take time to build up our following, but with enough snark, humor, potent Romney cynicism, Obama optimism, and relevant links to articles and gaffes, we should do alright, in time! ;)
Follow! NOW!
2. Obama Officially the World's Most Popular Leader on Twitter
Speaking of Twitter, here's something cool I ran into today. Obama has 18 MILLION followers. That's .0026% of the entire world. From "
Obama most followed world leader on Twitter, study says" via CBSNEWS:
(AP) Almost two-thirds of world leaders have joined the Twitterverse where President Barack Obama and his tweet on gay marriage are the most popular to date, says a new study Thursday.
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Some 264 world leaders now have a Twitter account, and the researchers believe that 30 of them do their own tweeting. Altogether they have sent more than 350,000 tweets to almost 52 million followers, the study shows.
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The most-followed account is @BarackObama, which is run by the Obama campaign and has 17.8 million followers.
By the way, here's the the tweet to end all tweets:
With a WHOPPING 61,000 RTs and 11,000 Favorites, it stands as the single most popular tweet EVER. How about that for another Obama "Great Big First".
Incidentally, according to the Twitter aggregator Favstar, the next most favorited tweet is Frank Ocean's "3 guys in Colorado died protecting their girlfriends. i don't want to hear any girls saying that 'All guys are the same.'", with 9,000 faves. That's a bit of a tearjerker, especially with the recency of that. Only Frank Ocean could make that sound poetic (tear).
Are you following @BarackObama yet? #Obama2012!
3. A Funny Tea-Party Tweeter Story...
So it's a bit lonely over there on Twitter for ONN, seeing as it just launched today and we're working out with TomP how to go about sharing the account. The 11 tweets I've sent out are, as you can imagine, not kind to Romney, with a few pro-Dem or pro-Obama tweets sprinkled throughout.
So earlier today, I got ONN's very first follower—YAY!—only to see that it was a so die-hard Tea Party conservative blogger with some 11,000 or so followers (at the time).
So surprised was I to see that the very first follower was a TPcon that I tweeted this:
A bit harsh but no less fun, I got no reply—but I did get an unfollow! Mission accomplished! His Twitter account later got suspended, which had nothing to do with me, but one can dream...
Way to go on the donations, gang. Mash the donate button some more and we'll eventually meet our goal!
UPDATE
Yesssss. We have our first 5 followers, w00t! Well, 20% of those 5 is actually an apolitical sex spambot...so come on, guys, spread the word about @ONNdailykos LOL
UPDATE X2
A few of you ONNers have mentioned you've decided to join Twitter for the first time ever because of ONNdailykos. That's just SWEET on so many levels! PROTIP: If you're looking for fellow Kossacks to follow, check out our Follow list—the majority of them are Kossacks ;).