How to use Twitter to become the most popular GOP presidential candidate (of Democrats)
How @jonhuntsman turned into a twitter star in 24 hours.
According to the self-described "most influential tip sheet in Washington," The Note, GOP presidential candidate Jon Huntsman has been "tweeting up a storm for the past 24 hours."
Tweeting by a candidate is not necessarily impressive -- all of the several hundred candidates running for the GOP presidential nomination tweet, as do all candidates for all offices in the world.
However, Jon Huntsman (or his ghost-tweeter) is different. He (or she) actually discovered yesterday how to craft a memorable tweet.
He (or she -- I don't care who if the campaign manager doesn't) knows, for example, that it's lots harder to tweet than it is to write. Indeed, as the famous blogger Thoreau (or perhaps it was one the the other bloggers, Voltaire, Augustin, Mark Twain, Einstein, Oscar Wilde, Thomas Jefferson or Blaise Pascal) once wrote, "I apologize this blog post is so long, I didn't have time to tweet."
Huntsman (did I mention he spells his first name like a Democrat -- without an "h"?) is demonstrating great tweetmanship with his <140 character barbs that evoke the wit of a fellow western-Mormon-politician Mo Udall (or perhaps, its @S##tMyDadSays).
How funny is his new tweeting voice? Well, here's a tweet from yesterday:- That, of course, made him an instant star on Twitter among people who, unfortunately for Huntsman, won't be voting in a Republican Primary, like, say...
- To be honest, I'm giving up following the GOP primary for the entire year except for next year's Lent, so I don't have any idea whether or not a Republican whose first name is spelled suspiciously like a liberal, without the "h", can win the nomination. However, I'll follow his (or her) tweets until they start sounding like all the other candidates.
