The "Not-So_Great" Twitter Challenge 2009

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Poor Leo,

He's gotta talk About

Twitter THIS Week!

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TWiT, like iPhone, has a small i, and Stands for This Week in TECH. A nice catchy and fitting name for a very popular MP3 Podcast about the current goings-on in Technology.

One of Leo Laporte's biggest hangnails is the Microblogger Wunderkind called Twitter.

That sounds too similar to TWiT:
his Show.

Up until recently, Twitter was Best Known for being the Most Popular "Cloud" program that has yet to make "money".

Tough Problem in these Tough Times.

Well this Week, Twitter Became the Most Talked about "Thingy"

by Two unbelievable "Celebrity Stunts", yes Stunts.
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First and foremost was the

Ashton Kutcher-Larry King
Media-hyped Challenge.

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Stupid URL to the story (not Linked on purpose!)

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20090415/on-the-net-twitter-kutcher/images/1db04644-0bbf-458e-927f-8600090fccf3.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/15/ashton-kutcher-vs-cnn-for_n_187263.html&usg=__sPx4mrPepgh32uix22hx03bW3HM=&h=512&w=383&sz=38&hl=en&start=1&tbnid=xqINBrqwW80ryM:&tbnh=131&tbnw=98&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dashton%2Bkutcher%2Band%2BLarry%2BKing%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG

That's 446 "Freakin" characters of STUPID!

Run through the Twitter inspired TinyURL and it becomes:

http://tinyurl.com/dmocpd

and that's just 25.

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The 445 characters would be 3.18 tweets because "Tweets"

(twitter messages are limited to 140 characters each.)

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The Kutcher Challenge was a Face Off of Popularity between Kutcher and Larry King to see "Who" could reach 1,000,000 "followers" First.

A Day or so later, Ashton had won the Challenge and was the Larry King Show to accept his "Prize" a Pair of Larry Kings trademark suspenders.

Check the Video Bar Top Right...

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Not to be out done by this Self Promoting Stunt,

the Queen of Media,
Oprah
manufactures here own

"Media Circus" ,

by becoming a Live "Twitterer" on her

Oprah Show.

It's pretty sad when "Puff-Cakes" become supporters of
"New Technology" that's been around for OVER TWO YEARS.

Yep, Leo's going to have to

Talk about THIS ONE.

Wingman, shaking his Head....tsk..tsk...tsk
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Also sadly, Oprah's First Tweet was corrected (pawned) by Shaq,

a Media-Savy Basketball star...

Obviously, to be continued, unless we run out of

Celebs that Need "the Spotlight"

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Twitter Effect: Did New Media Do Hillary In?

From the beginning of the campaign it appeared that the Obama Team was more Tech savy than the Hillary Team. Internet, text messaging and even Twitter played a resounding role in this campaign.

I personally found it easy to "follow" Obama on Twitter. I tried the same for Hillary and was dismayed by the number of choices that seemed scatter-gun rather than focused.

A few days after following Obama, I received a Twitter that Obama was "Following Me". That simple action, was a stroke of genius. And a deft realization of the Power of New Media.

Not many are aware of the social gathering tools, such as Twitter, and how to use them to best advantage. It appears the Obama Team did, and used it a a critical point in the campaign.

New Media (the Internet, and Social Networking) will beat Old Media every time, and points to the need to be New Media savy.

elobopper at : mediacircus2.blogspot.com