Posted by
Ron Devito on Tuesday, November 10, 2009 10:38:02 PM
by Gary P. Jackson
The Speech: A Time for choosing -- http://thespeechatimeforchoosing.blogspot.com
As we wrote
Monday, Sarah Palin announced the early dates for her "Going Rogue"
national book tour. At the same time, Sarah announced that she will be
back on Twitter.
Sarah’s new Twitter account, SarahPalinUSA,
has exploded with an incredible surge of followers. In the 24 hours
since she announced the site 12,758 people have signed up to be a part
of the excitement.
It
should be noted that Sarah’s former Twitter account, the one she used
as Governor, had 152,650 followers when she suspended it’s use. To put
that in perspective, that was more than Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney,
Bobby Jindal, and Tim Pawlenty had combined, with over 60,000 to spare.
Two thirds of those folks joined up after her July 3rd speech
announcing she would step down as Governor of Alaska.
With almost one million supporters on Facebook,
a number that grows by the hour on her very busy site, it’s quite
obvious that Sarah has mastered the internet in ways other politicians
have not been able to.
Sarah
has been able to by-pass the old media, and get her messages out to
America, unfiltered, and unedited. With these messages she has been
able to shape the national debate on health care, energy independence,
and economic policy. By forgoing traditional media in favor of
Facebook, Sarah has been able to make national headlines, and in the
case of energy and monetary policy, headlines world wide for her astute
reflections on the state of affairs.
This
is a brilliant strategy, obviously. The media follow her every move,
and as her every Facebook post reaches millions, you don’t have to be
signed up to read them, the old dinosaur media is obliged to report
what she says, even as they try in vane to refute it. A total win-win
situation for her.
When
Sarah stepped down, she promised her tweets wouldn’t be so "politically
correct" as they had to be when she was Governor. It will be very
interesting to see what she will have to say as she tours the nation
visiting with Americans on the "Going Rogue" tour.
