At the most recent Akron bloggers meeting Ron McDaniel told me that he'd read Twitter was now the number two way to reach your target audience. (Number one is still opt-in email campaigns). Twitter was ahead of Facebook and Linked In and pay per click.
Saturday I attended a follow up meeting with those I went to PodCamp Ohio and we also talked about twitter and how we used it for our business. With the RNC just ending, the topic turned to politics and someone mentioned that Obama had a Twitter site that kept followers up to day on his speeches and campaign trail visits. This morning I went on line to see what the site was all about and found over 77,000 followers.
What does that mean?
In an interest of fairness, I searched for a Twitter site for McCain/Palin and discovered one that looked to be managed by the campaign and yet there weren't any "tweets" or comments left by the party. The site had over 100 followers but there wasn't any information linked to the site.
What does that mean?
Social networking is growing by leaps and bounds. Does Twitter matter when it comes to getting the word out to voters?
If you were a politican candidate, would Twitter play a role in your efforts to communicate to voters?
p.s. if you know of a better site for McCain, please let me know
Photo courtesy of WSAQ radio.
