Some of you don't do Twitter. However, I've noticed that RWNJs get their hashtags

[ChisolmTrailDem]

trending vastly more often that we on the left do. And they do it ALL THE TIME!

Case in point: http://www.twitter.com

#ThingsThatOffendLiberals

I am hard core on Twitter and I let wingnuts have it right in the nuts. They kick our asses getting their message out.

Why is this?

[NightWatcher]

1. I dont understand the assholes who have all that free time

When I waste time online, rarely do I want to spend it being a negative douchebag. Negativity kills a part of your soul. Fox is 100% negative all the time, the same with rw radio, and now these tools have decided to troll twitter with their days. Also, the suck at being creative with their insults. All they do is repeat and repeat and repeat what they've been spoonfed.

Poor pathetic bastards

[legcramp]

14. I don't think it has to do with "free time" at all anymore

Look around you at the number of people that have portable devices glued to their hands at all times. The image of someone hunched over a keyboard at a desk pounding out posts is so passé.

Watch those people wherever they are thumbing on their virtual keypads constantly. On the bus, in an elevator, waiting in line at Starbucks or a grocery store or going through the drive-thru at McDonald's. They're non-stop some of them.

Twitter is simply texting and can be done in seconds. We're not talking navigating a web site like Facebook, Fark, Huffpo or even DU here. *That BTW may be contributing to decrease in the popularity of FB, even their apps are kludgy*

[frylock]

19. their entire raison d'etre is to stick it to libtards..

it's all they have. their fucking worthless lives are so miserable that they need to make everyone else miserable as well.

[shenmue]

2. #ThingsThatOffendLiberals: shitty Republican Congresses

[Jamaal510]

18. +1

[frylock]

20. well there you go. let's assume ownership of this..

they want to know what offends us? why not let them know.

[winter is coming]

3. Astroturf. n/t

[JHB]

12. AstroTurf + Woims

Woim = toady to bullies, identifying as "on the team" of the bully and vicariously getting off on someone else getting beat up, especially if they can get a kick in without consequences.

cf. Little Rascals/Our Gang films

[JaneyVee]

4. Because they have aggregate sites like twitchy to use twitter bombs.

All the sheep get the message to use a certain hash tag at a certain time and it starts trending. It's not hard to get something to trend on twitter, a couple thousand at one time is sufficient, especially on slow news days.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

5. My question is: Why don't we bother to counter it? Twitter is a powerful comm tool. Of

course, it's a rhetorical question.

I just don't understand why they are so loud while we tend to be quiet.

[JaneyVee]

10. Because hate is not a liberal trait. Also, the left usually takes over their

Hash tags anyway. Plus, they can keep their hash tags, we'll keep the White House.

[House of Roberts]

6. The Reich has full-time paid operatives with multiple e-mail and IP addresses?

No guarantee they really get the message as far as you think they do.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

7. When a hashtag is trending in the left-hand column on Twitter, my understanding is that

EVERYONE, not just the choir, can see it.

[House of Roberts]

8. Aye, but how many are receptive?

Most of twitter couldn't care less about politics. There aren't that many persuadables that see it.

The point I was offering is that there aren't as many real people behind their numbers.

[ProgressSaves]

9. You can buy a trending topic on Twitter. nt

[muriel_volestrangler]

15. My understanding is that is how Twitter makes its money

and so this is probably explained by RW astroturf funded by the Kochs etc.

FWIW, what I see as trending now (possibly UK-oriented) is:

#Duggan
#NYSOS14
Gates
Christie
#expediachat
Wordless Wednesday
#tcot
Norfolk
#TeaParty
Thomas Hitzlsperger

[octoberlib]

17. +1 Armies of corporate funded astroturfers. There was an article on this in The Nation.nt

[rrneck]

11. Dems are a bit more wordy I expect.

I imagine that RW positions fit more easily into the format.

[TexasBushwhacker]

13. The start trending because the Liberals post stuff too

Ie. RWNJ posts "my right to keep and bear arms" and then a liberal posts "people who think we should have a universal right to buy guns, but not a right to universal health care". It adds up fast.

[octoberlib]

16. They have armies of astroturfers who are paid to

handle social media and to leave comments on articles. They even leave nasty reviews on books by liberal authors. They put all that corporate money to good use. Progressive groups just don't get the funding.