Category: Social Media

TechCrunch reports that 75 million people visited Twitter in January. Its annual growth rate is still a phenomenal 1,105 percent. A year ago, Twitter.com attracted only an estimated 6 million visitors. Why not make it 75 million plus one in February?  Join here and follow me here.

Politico covers the White House’s use of Twitter here. The Democratic National Committee is hiring a social networks manager to tweet, too, according to this WSJ report. The new hire will work closely with the rest of the new media department to execute grassroots campaigns to advance the President’s agenda for change, the listing says. […]

Robert Wright describes a “balkanized media landscape and activist group that springs from it” in this Times piece today. If we lengthened legislative terms and then capped the number of terms, more people in Congress could spend more time worrying about something other than getting re-elected next year, and this could leave them productively indifferent […]