Republicans start their "dirty tricks" campaign on Twitter.

[sufrommich]

Happy Monday, everyone! Time for some farm-fresh ratfuckery from the National Republican Senatorial Committee!

The NRSC has created new website to win friends and raise the bar for respectful political debate ::snort:: sorry, couldn’t keep a straight face while typing that. The URL for the site is demsplanforamerica.com, and when you visit, you find… get this… a blank web page.

Har de har har, sure showed those Demoncraps!

It’s certainly their right to behave in as juvenile and ugly a manner as they choose.

However, their edgy social media strategy for the website launch is a ratfuck too far. In order to draw attention to their clever new site, this is how they promoted it on Twitter.

To those not Twitter-savvy, allow me to explain what you’re seeing here. The prefix RT in front of a message stands for re-tweet. It is used in Twitter etiquette to indicate that the message that follows is being forwarded by you to your followers for their edification.

So when the NRSC types “RT @BarackObama”, they are indicating that everything that follows is a tweet sent BY Barack Obama.

In other words, the NRSC is willfully misrepresenting the official communications of the President and leading Senate Democrats by creating fake RTs.

I hear you saying, but that’s unethical! Yep. And that is sleazy! Also, yep. That ought to be against the rules of Twitter! Sadly, nope. Friend of this blog Karoli, for example, is currently being bombarded with fake RTs by a deranged Twitter user, and has taken as many steps as she can to sever any ties from the nutjob in question, but said nutjob will not be stopped by Twitter. (I too have been targeted by the same nutjob because I RTed information about the nutjob’s Twitter defamation campaign against Karoli.)

http://www.angryblacklady.com/2011/06/20/keeping-it-classy-at-the-nrsc/



If you have a Twitter account, please consider re-tweeting. Make them come out from under their rocks.

[mikehiggins]

1. Why not just dump twitter?

SOmehow I've managed to survive without it, something Anthony W should have considered.

The whole thing leaves you wide open to any nutjob in the world to screw around with you.

What is the overriding value that makes this seem important to so many?

But hey, I don't like Facebook, either.