Conservatives4Palin.com: Bear Rugs and Fake Tweets

April 30, 2009 by Steve Schultz @GeniusbyOsmosis
Filed under: Social Media

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Are you listening on the web? Do you know what others are saying about you? Here’s a great example as to why you should be if you aren’t already.

Let’s face it. No matter what you will have to change how you act as a politician due to social media. Either you will accept it or it will jam itself down your throat. The latter may even be that painful when it happens. If for no other reason, you should be listening on the web to make sure you aren’t being misrepresented. And I mean that in the most literal sense.

Don Young, Republican Congressmen from Alaska has been twitterjacked this past week. Someone started a twitter account under his name and spent all week tweeting Young to be a fool. While the Twitter feed is quite hilarious and I do find myself re-reading it a couple times over again, it just proves the point.

You cannot avoid the web. Even if you aren’t going to participate, at least listen. How is a US Congressmen didn’t have a single staffer that was able to notice this until after a week? Is everyone on his staff his equal age? Even so, his age is a growing demographic on Twitter.

Listening on the web is vital to your success. Not only will it help you understand your constituents and share your message to them but you will avoid the folly of being twitterjacked by a random person that has no other intentions than to make you look like an ignoramus.

If you are a candidate running for office and don’t have any idea how to listen on the web, sign up for our charter membership which is still open because it’s the best training you’ll find at only $97 per quarter (which ends mid-June by the way).

You have to read the tweet stream here: http://www.conservatives4palin.com/2009/04/bear-rugs-and-fake-tweets.html