Today’s SmartBrief on Social Media links to an insightful post by Julian Sanchez of Ars Technica about what social media tools mi
ght do for the Republican Party. It’s just one post in what’s become a ranging and divergent argument about the GOP’s future.
Clearly there was a Facebook gap, a Twitter gap and an SMS gap between the Democratic and Republican campaigns in 2008, but it’s unlikely that it was dispositive in terms of the outcome. But to hear some of the candidates for GOP party chair, social media is a numbers game. In Dana MIlbank’s Washington Sketch column from Tuesday, he quotes rivals for the chairmanship jousting over how many social media contacts they have. (For the record, former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell says he has about 4,000 while Michigan Republicans chairman Saul Anuzis says he’s got between 2,000 and 3,000 Facebook friends; Anuzis is also reportedly an indefatigable Twitterer.) (read more…)
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