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Opinion – Twitter: powerful campaign tool or waste of effort?

The simple tweet “F*ck” at 10am with the reply “Agreed” last Friday was the only source and all the evidence I required to know that Chris Huhne had been charged. Two words tied emotion with cognition. I followed Nick Clegg’s tax cut speech live through the medium of 140 character paraphrase: a sort of Focus-speak reduction I can only imagine would have the speech-writers crying. The utterance “Borgen – Danish West Wing” was all the persuasion necessary to watch it religiously.

Twitter is free, fast and tragic. And if it wasn’t powerful in facilitating the fall of …

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  • Peter Davies
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    The picture is in the article if put through an AI detector comes out as high probability AI generated...
  • Simon McGrath
    @James, it is quite clearly to to pass itself off as associated with the Party by using the party name. The website is very odd. There are lots of strange b...
  • Hywel
    Also they don't identify who the data controller is, just say you will be notified about this if you sign up. When you go to sign up it asks for a number of bi...
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