New media is playing a prominent role in the Virginia governor’s race, according to this Washington Times report. In an era when politicians often appear only in packaged sound bites and are savaged for not being tech-savvy, Mr. Deeds is constantly posting mini-updates or Tweets and allowing the unfettered personal access that only Twitter provides. […]
Category: Social Media
Twitter Lobbying
Roll Call examines Twitter’s potential need for Washington representation here. Twitter management did not respond to repeated requests to discuss the company’s lobbying plans. Secretary of the Senate records show that Twitter has not opened a K Street office. And there are no suggestions in news accounts that Twitter has hired an in-town public relations […]
Freedom of the Internet
The Post endorses a plan to fund the Global Internet Freedom Consortium. Its software allows users to evade online censors by connecting to a remote server that switches IP addresses nearly once a second to avoid being traced. But increased demand for the Internet amid recent turmoil has been overloading the consortium’s servers just when […]