I didn’t even know Twitter had a daily limit for sending tweets, but evidently I exceeded it livetweeting the Presidential debate. Fortunately that didn’t kick in until the very end.
Anyway, if you follow me on Twitter, you might send out a note to that effect, just in case people wonder where I went…
Attention the Internets: I will be live-tweeting tonight’s debate between Romney and Obama. Tune in or follow me if you are so inclined.
On Twitter, you can mark any word (or combination of words) you want with a hashtag (#) #likethis. Naturally, as part of the current election season, liberals have been trying to create various Twitter tags (#ows for Occupy Wall Street, #P2 for Progressive on Twitter, etc.) Anyone on Twitter can use any hashtag for anything.
The problem for them is that there’s no hashtag they can create that conservatives can’t hijack. Frankly, I’ve never seen the right lose a serious Twitter war yet.
Today’s example of hijinks ensuing: #ThingsMittRomneyHasNeverDone. Some samples:
Yep, the last one is me. I had a lot of fun with that tag.
You can see more examples of this #liberalfail on Twitchy.
Tonight is the last Ted Cruz/David Dewhurst debate before the election. (Hey Dewhurst, what happened to all those other debates you said you were up for?)
Baring unforeseen technical difficulties, I will be LiveTweeting the debate from Cruz headquarters in Austin. I’m guessing the hashtag will probably be #belodebate again. Drop in if you’re so inclined.
You may have heard of the Obama campaign’s attempt to use an imaginary woman named Julia to convince women to embrace a cradle-to-grave welfare state. (And looking at European demographics, we can only assume that’s more grave than cradle.)
Naturally, conservatives have had fun on Twitter with #Julia, including the observation that her male counterpart would naturally be named “Winston.” Also: “#Julia died at age 78. She voted Democrat until age 92.”
But, as usual, IowaHawk nails it.
Some other Julia tidbits:
Go to https://twitter.com/#!/BattleSwarmBlog if you want to follow me there. Expect a lot of #txsen posts. I’ll probably also tweet more stuff that’s not worthy of an entire post…
I expect the campaigns to start announcing Q4 fundraising results any day now, and I just sent off a list of interview questions to the Craig James campaign today. So here’s one final news roundup of the senate race before an expected avalanche of news.
Looking at James’ Twitter feed, he seems to have done a number of radio shows.
Pity the pundit forced by duty to watch an Obama speech. Barring a Teleprompter malfunction, there are few events more tedious and predictable. When even uber-Democrat James Carville says that between an Obama speech and a Republican debate, “I would have watched the debate and I’m not even a Republican or even close to being a Republican,” you know you’re in store for some deep hurting.
So how can we assuage the agony of those poor, dedicated souls who will be watching Obama’s jobs speech tonight? Barring an announcement that he’s abandoning Big Government liberalism for budget and tax cuts, the chances for another Obama snoozefest are vast, while the possibility of anything new and substantive are slim. How can we keep their attention focused on the POTUS, and not on the desperate need for another highball or passing a sanity roll?
Simple: With my handy Obama Jobs Speech Bingo chart below! Just print out and place a marker every time Obama trots out one of his stock job speech phrases. Which I’m confident will be pretty darn often.
Which dedicated pundit will be the first to post “Bingo! #ObamaBingo” to Twitter tonight?
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