So everyone has heard that Democrats are winning the battle in social media against Republicans. Barack Obama won his Presidential race because of an outstanding social media campaign that tied in a new generation of voters while Republicans were two steps behind and a Farmville dollar short.
But what about Conservatives? On Twitter, there is a growing movement of Independent Conservatives #icon, Tea Party goers #teaparty, and Tenth Amendment proponents #tenth, not to mention lastly and certainly not least – the Top Conservatives of Twitter #tcot. I did a study over a 30 minute span between 9:28PST and 9:58PST on Tuesday October 27th, comparing the tweets of only conservatives (not specifically Republicans #GOP) to that of the primary Democratic and liberal hashtags on Twitter; #left, #liberal, #prog, #p2, #dem, #democrat and #dems (If I am missing some please let me know). The results were astounding.
#p2 was clearly the leading hashtag for liberals and progressives. In fact, it was the only tag of those I listed with double digit tweets in that span with 166.
#tcot was clearly the leading hashtag for conservatives, but #teaparty showed up strong as well. The others also did not get in the double digits, although I myself am a big proponent of #tenth. Overwhelmingly, #tcot led the pack with an obverwhelming 523, while #teaparty had a respectable 61. #tcot has been around for some time and is clearly well established. Naturally, some tweeters take advantage of that just to grab attention. Likewise, alot of the #dem tags were actually conservative tweetes doing the same.
But something to take note of were the two tweets a minute for a relatively new #teaparty movement that repeatedly gets diminished by the MSM. Plus overall, Conservatives out-tweeted Democrats, progressives and liberals more than 3.5 to 1! That is an astounding difference, and if I were a Democratic leader, I would be worried. The GOP establishment may not be winning the social media war, but the Conservatives certainly are.
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