Twitter Is the Official Office Of The Tea Party
Some terribly unfortunate students at the University of Michigan had to spend a semester scratching their eyes out in front of a screen, counting the millions of times Tea Party people have taken creative license with the English language and coughed up a mauled, dismembered sentence in 140 characters or less. You will probably not be surprised to learn that these are the people who do the most blabbing on Twitter, compared with Republicans and Democrats.
That's the finding of a study out of the University of Michigan, which surveyed 460,000 tweets over a three-year period from 687 candidates running for U.S. House, Senate and governor.
Over the study period, tea party candidates tweeted an average of 901 times compared to 723 times for Republicans and 551 for Democrats.
"The conservative candidates---Republicans and Tea Party members---definitely used Twitter more visibly and showed a more coherent set of messages and topics," said Eytan Adar, assistant professor in the School of Information and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. "They also followed each other much more closely. I think it's fair to say they were much more cohesive in a lot of ways and at the end of the day that makes for a stronger campaign."
[Politico ]
I know engineering school is tough but this is just plain inhumane.
I used to love listening to birds sing until I realized that their songs usually were the following:
"C'mon here bitch...I got your red breast right here"
"My nest my bitch motherfucker! Don't make me peck you!"
"Warning warning warning! Predator!"
"Don't let the 'pecker' thing fool you baby"
Looking at these, I realize that they are all pretty much GOP talking points. (In this case, the predator is "big government".