Would you vote for a candidate that didn't have a twitter account?

[yortsed snacilbuper]

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. That would make me *want* to vote for them.

Twitter is a fucking plague.

[exboyfil]

5. YES

[rampartc]

6. +1

[Tipperary]

12. Ditto.

Twitter seems to be junior high school for adults.

[Dem2theMax]

21. Me too. nt.

[Socal31]

2. It would be a positive attribute in by book.

Reaching voting age in the early 00s, I've done so multiple times.

[walkingman]

3. Not YES but Hell YES!! I'm tired of the daily BS and meaningless crap on twitter. Juvenile.

[Raven123]

4. I would prefer a candidate w/o a Twitter account. Too much BS

[GemDigger]

7. Yes.

Or FB, Instagram, DU or any social media.

[LAS14]

8. Absolutely! Do you know one???? nt

[Ms. Toad]

9. Only if I ageed with their political values.

Would you vote for one that didn't have a parakeet? (That seems about as relevant a voting criteria to me . . .)

[Volaris]

40. Well NOW you've gone and done it lol...now we gotta deal with THAT litmus test for 2020..

[Ms. Toad]

41. Yup.

Now I just have to find out which candidate has a parakeet, so I know which one to vote for.

[Volaris]

43. Lol at least we'll know which ones are 'checking in' with us?

I suppose thatd be marginally a good thing lol...

[Totally Tunsie]

10. I'd PREFER a candidate that doesn't have a twitter account.

In fact, I made a plea in that same vein just a few days ago:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/128734381

[DFW]

11. Absolutely

I have an account, but I use it so infrequently, I have to look up my password each time, and I have no idea how the features work.

[Igel]

13. People I know fall into three categories.

Those without Twitter. They're normal.

Those who have an account but seldom use it except when there's something they want twits to see. (Or is that "tweeters"? No matter.)

Those who use it constantly, and confuse Twitter-realm with the world. If it's on Twitter, it's important; if you're on Twitter, you're important. What's on Twitter must be right. Twitter assumes outsized importance for people who are constant users, much like Instagram does for a lot of teens. Twitter has something like 17 million active users (Twitter likes to say that a truly impressive percentage of people have accounts and are "users"; I have an active account and checked it last perhaps a month ago. I'm not alone.

My school district sends out alerts by Twitter. And is repeatedly slammed by parents for not communicating with them. "But everybody uses Twitter!" No, the school district has a "social media" person because the top administration uses it and requires that the rest of the administration uses it. At trainings teachers are told they *will* sign up for it, and we're walked through the process. Then most of us ignore it for the rest of the year, to a refrain of, "Why don't you know this? You have a Twitter feed, don't you?"

I'd prefer that they confiscate my elected official's cell phones upon swearing it and give them pagers instead, returning their cell phones as their replacements are sworn in. It would reduce the level of sycophancy for low-ranking ones, narcissism overall, and reduce sharply the ease with which politicians make themselves into utter asses and easily breach both protocol and security.

[TomSlick]

14. Yes, please!

[JI7]

15. maybe, but most candidates just use it as a place to post info

on where they will be or their position on some current issue.

most don't really use it to debate.

[Wounded Bear]

16. Sure, although there are people out there using it for better purposes than Trump...

It is not the platform or the technology that is inherently evil, it is the users.

Just like I won't vow to NOT vote with someone that uses twitter. How they use it is what matters.

[GoCubsGo]

17. Yes.

I am not seeing how not having one could be considered a negative attribute.

[sinkingfeeling]

18. Absolutely.

[Celerity]

19. I would, BUT any elected major US politician that doesn't have one is fighting

with one hand tied behind their backs.

AOC is the perfect example. She immediately smacks down bullshit and fake new hit attacks with real-time, massively effective clap backs. She wins the media wars far more times than not.

[Iggo]

35. I know that.

And yet, I don't have a twitter account.

[Maeve]

20. I would consider that a plus, yes

[northoftheborder]

22. Yes, that is a positive for me.

[pansypoo53219]

23. yes. & no facebook? YES!

[Hekate]

24. In a heartbeat. Twitter is a plague on the body politic. nt

[Nitram]

25. You're kidding, right?

[kimbutgar]

26. Yes

[WheelWalker]

27. What's a Twitter?

[aikoaiko]

28. Its a plus. I don't think professionals should communicate professionally via Twitter.

[ProfessorGAC]

44. That's Good Reasoning

Only problem is we have people actually believing that a pol taking to Twitter is talking directly to them and "telling it like it is". Both, of course, are illusory.

[lapfog_1]

29. I helped to invent the internet... 43 years ago

don't get me wrong... The Arpanet was a few years old when I, as a college student, was part of a team that wrote some of the original IMP (Internet Message Protocol) code (before there was TCP/IP).

I have a Twitter account, a Facebook account, Instagram, and, yes, even a Myspace account (and yahoo and google).

except for gmail... and google maps... I religiously do NOT USE any of them.

The saying used to be "religion is the opiate of the people"... I say "social media is the opiate of the people... often the wrong people"

None of the social media has brought us together... more often it helps to divide us.

I want my next President, whoever they may be, to never use social media again as long as they are President.

[tblue37]

30. I wouldn't even know that they didn't unless someone made an issue of it. nt

[2naSalit]

31. Yes...nt

[Quixote1818]

32. Don't use twitter so really don't care if they use it or not.

and the fact that dick head uses it all the time makes me long for someone completely opposite of him.

[wendyb-NC]

33. Yes.

[Iggo]

34. Yes.

That's not why I'd vote for them.

But yes, I have no problem voting for a candidate who doesn't have a twitter account.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

36. I don't give a flying fuck about twitter accounts.

I don't have one. I doubt I'll ever have one. It's fine that lots of other people have them.

For what it's worth, I think my son has one, but some years back he more or less told me I was forbidden to get on twitter and find his account.

And honestly, even without his prohibition, I don't feel at all deprived not being on twitter. What I need to see from that particular aspect of social media I get all over the place.

What was the question?

[Luciferous]

37. Sure

[Tikki]

38. Yes....

Tikki

[VarryOn]

39. It's not even in the top 20 things that are important to me...

But I cant imagine there would be a candidate without a Twitter account.

I dont have a Facebook account anymore, but I do have a Twitter one. I dont post, and I dont subscribe to many people.

A politician can use Twitter effectively to reach out to voters. I do like that a politician can communicate directly to his/her followers without going through the media.

[ProudLib72]

42. Proudlib doesn't have a Twitter account

Everyone should vote for Proudlib 2020

This message endorsed by Proudlib and the Coalition for Proudlib

[ProfessorGAC]

45. You Can't Run

There's a rumor you stuck your tongue out at someone when you were 4!

[cbdo2007]

46. As others have said, it is a marketing tool ...

And if used correctly by company's marketing department it can be very valuable.

That being said though, most company executives that I know never Twitter and would never use it for actual executive communication.

In 10 years people aren't going to be using it at all because there will be something new anyways.

[treestar]

47. No. They have to know how to use the technology.

Use it wisely. It is possible. But they'd be out of the loop.