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- slifty, on 06/23/2008, -1/+93Cause if there is one thing I've learned, it's that complex policies can and should be summarized in 140 letters or less!
- bubut, on 06/23/2008, -7/+84This just in: Twitter is extremely overrated.
- rivalius13, on 06/23/2008, -6/+69We nd chng in wshntn, chng we cn belv in.
- tfletch, on 06/23/2008, -3/+49I'm sorry but this is ***** and unrealistic today
- Scopitone, on 06/23/2008, -1/+46Q - "How Twitter Can Change the Presidential Debate"
A- Not ***** remotely. - AllYourBase3, on 06/23/2008, -6/+51Twitter is the biggest ***** ever. I can't believe it is even half as popular as it is.
- PapaZit, on 06/23/2008, -3/+22Twitter is trivial. Let's get real.
- Drakk0n, on 06/23/2008, -0/+15Since were talking about insane debate formats - I prefer a mexican gong show style presidential debate - a candidate begins to ramble the audience can boo - a guy in a black hood and trumpet comes out and begins to mock him - a buncha pretty girls in bikinis - it would be the best format and would accomplish pretty much the same thing right?
- angusm, on 06/23/2008, -0/+14140 characters doesn't favor well-thought out responses to difficult questions. It favors "They hate us because we're free" oversimplifications. Do we really want another soundbite presidency?
- hollering, on 06/23/2008, -2/+14I'm skeptical -- I think it's a great way to avoid the 15-minute answer that doesn't address the question. BUT... my concern is that the candidates won't be able to explain their positions well enough to the people, resulting in shallow answers that only sound good from 30,000 miles. I think we have enough sound-bite politics as it is!
- roadtripper, on 06/23/2008, -1/+11Twitter can barely handle the traffic of an average Tuesday. I think it's a bit ambitious of them to assume they could handle this amount of traffic.
- jarbro, on 07/23/2009, -1/+11wont happen, twitter will just go down
- Spoomeister, on 06/23/2008, -0/+9When I read the phrase "twitter can change the presidential debate", I think I actually heard some extra brain cells dying. Or maybe that was the dying squeak of the last vestiges of any dignity associated with the American political process.
I now have the start of my "glad George Carlin didn't live to see this" list. - SeaweedWater, on 06/23/2008, -0/+9This is gonna be pretty dumb..
- toastfox, on 06/23/2008, -0/+8No. Just no.
- mychaleg, on 06/23/2008, -6/+14if you're on Twittr and old enough to vote, it's time to rethink your life.
- DivisibleByZero, on 06/23/2008, -0/+8You'll be singing a different tune when the giant ants arrive.
- themostbrian, on 06/23/2008, -0/+7Why is it political folly to be the smartest person in the room? Why must we continue pandering to the lowest common denominator through perpetually "simplifying" policy explanations and demonizing complexity and nuance?
I am all for expanding the reach of this democracy through the internet, but if that means reducing intricate issues to savvy political punch lines, then we have gone too far. We need a great debate about issues, ideas and ideology.. This will simply not get us there and, in fact, I fear that it will take us in the opposite direction. - kuwan, on 06/23/2008, -5/+11You people think you're more important than you actually are.
- bxblox, on 06/23/2008, -1/+6Twitter aint changing *****.
- Rizoh, on 06/23/2008, -0/+5Wait, you hear that? Sounds like someone's pissing into an ocean.
- kosmoX, on 06/23/2008, -3/+8Holy ***** your life must be easy with everything so black and white.
- HotSaucePanCake, on 06/23/2008, -1/+6I don't Twitter, i have to much crap already to do
- goofygarber, on 06/23/2008, -2/+7No, it can't change the presidential debate because twitter is for hipsters and retards, not serious discussion.
- roadtripper, on 06/23/2008, -0/+4Nothing . . . which was the point of the post.
The site is down during the most random times so I can't imagine how they'll stay up/running during a debate. - kraetos, on 06/23/2008, -0/+4Do you even know what web 2.0 is?
- TheInformer, on 06/23/2008, -0/+4BREAKING NEWS
You're correct :^) - TheInformer, on 06/23/2008, -3/+7I thought twitters were exclusively a female thing?
- Duositex, on 06/23/2008, -0/+4Why is it that every time something becomes remotely popular people begin to write articles on the topic in a vain attempt to relate them to every other topic every conceived?
Because it boosts ad revenue! Newspapers, Magazines, Television, Books, the Radio, and every other medium have been doing this for decades. Lame lame lame profiteering.
Twitter is a useless fad for self-important bored people. If I hear about anyone tweeting anything again any time soon I'm gonna tweet my pants.
here's a few more article topics destined to make some cash:
- How Twitter Could've Changed the Outcome of WWII
- Twitter Saved My Leg: A Would-be Amputee Espouses the Virtues of the Most Useful Web 2.0 Every Created
- Toilet Tweets: How Twitter Is Used to Diagnose Colon Cancer and Irritable Bowel Syndrome
- John Twitter: Did Twitter Distract Emergency Responders who Could've Saved John Ritter's life?
- The Top 10 Most Hilarious Tweets of 2008
- My Car Runs on Twitter
- 7w1773r - A Hacker's Guide
- John McCain's Twitter Trouble - How one old presidential candidate loses pace with the speed of the internet.
Etc. etc. etc. etc. BOOOOOO!!! - jfreeman, on 06/23/2008, -0/+4Hasn't meaningful debate been stifled enough in this country? Do we really need, or want, more soundbites?
- Andrwmorph, on 06/23/2008, -2/+6I'm sorry but Twitter is not going to make a difference in anything. Ever.
- DivisibleByZero, on 06/23/2008, -3/+7"The wrong side" of every issue. This isn't Captain Planet, where the world is populated by villians who pollute the environment simply for the sake of doing evil things.
Republican politicians and voters actually disagree with you. I know it's shocking. - chriswastaken, on 10/27/2009, -0/+3You're right. And who made the first electric car capable of driving on the Moon? And who engineers batteries that can sustain tremendous G forces and temperature differences and still perform? Cutting funding to NASA is like cutting money from the national research and development.
- mt4055, on 06/23/2008, -0/+3They are still trivial.
- EruditeGoof, on 06/23/2008, -2/+5Obama's surrogate wouldn't need 140 characters to explain his policy positions. "Change" is only six.
- sundancekid503, on 06/23/2008, -0/+3@brutimus: Dropping a deuce - brb
- toekneebullard, on 06/23/2008, -0/+3No the best way to avoid the non-answer is to call them on it. When they dance around the question, the moderator needs to say, "OK, now that you've wasted all that time, you mind answering the question?"
We need to change who;s running these things. I can't remember the last time I saw a real debate. - inactive, on 06/23/2008, -0/+3Follow Up Story : Will SMS change The Presidential Debate, they have a 160 character limit after all!
- freezeout, on 06/23/2008, -1/+4so some 2.0 web service used only by a handful of latte sipping hipsters will change the presidential debate
riiiiight.. - TheInformer, on 06/23/2008, -3/+6Republicans scare voters before an election, while Democrats scare voters after an election.
- babar77, on 06/23/2008, -0/+3Twitter only gives the MSM what they want: the 10 second sound bite. Look where that has taken our political discourse.
Sorry, but I prefer to base my vote on more than a bunch of 140 character statements. - TheInformer, on 06/23/2008, -1/+3Hmmm nice analogy! I guess if Obama supporters can use "McSame", McCain supporters can use "Captain Planeteers".
- salinemist, on 06/23/2008, -1/+3What is Twitter?
- jmoh, on 06/23/2008, -0/+2I heard about this on NPR the other day, needless to say it didn't seem that convincing it would make any difference whatsoever, and the founder of this didn't seem too clear either.
- supermanky, on 06/23/2008, -1/+3Twitter is another way for anybody to post self-congratulatory sound bites about their mundane lives.
- DemonicPrime, on 06/23/2008, -1/+3you mean a tactical terrorist communiqué?
- mt4055, on 06/23/2008, -0/+2I'm sorry, you will have to rephrase that. It was 167 characters, not counting spaces.
- funk13, on 06/23/2008, -0/+2dugg for npr, buried for twitter...
...i'm not really sure where i stand. - toekneebullard, on 06/23/2008, -0/+2"Change."
- nzhamstar, on 06/23/2008, -0/+2Twitter, track yourself and your actions to save the government money on spy technologies.
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