Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Twitter-bomb some wingnuts!

Well, this is a new one on me: a Twitter bomb. The Florida Progressive Coalition's Kenneth Quinnell explains:

Those of you who are on Twitter, send as many tweets as you can over the next few days with #dontgo in them. The conservatives are using this hash mark (like a tag) to spread misinformation about offshore drilling and their latest publicity stunt. What Liza and a few others started doing was to flood that hash with counter-commentary or irrelevant posts. Sort of like a google bomb, this can either disrupt what they're doing or, at the very least, annoy the crap out of them. We can all do this.
Okay, I'm in. Come on and join me. It's fun and it's free!

UPDATE (1:40 am 8/6/08): Obviously, it works. My Twitter message (what are they called -- Tweets or something like that?) was up for maybe a minute when some wingnut from North Carolina found it by searching Twitter for "#dontgo" ... then followed the link over here. Nice.

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