¶ Barack Obama is now following you!

I just got an email: “Barack Obama is now following you in Twitter!”

I am being followed by Barack Obama. He also follows 5880 of my closest friends. He’s like our own little stalker1.

I’m also followed by John Edwards. He’s only stalking 4236 others. I guess his time is harder to come by, or else he’s pickier about his stalk-ees.

OK, I do also “follow” both of them2, because I find a 140-character update about the whereabouts of a candidate (“In Des Moines to talk with teachers about increasing education funding!”) is better than hearing either the news version, or the actual version either. And neither one of those guys does more than a post a week. I can handle about 280 characters of presidential primary news per week. I think that should be the national standard.

I would do other candidates3, but I haven’t found ‘em. (Haven’t looked too hard either, though.) I looked for Mittens, but he doesn’t seem to be a Twitter-er. Surprising, though: it seems like all politicians are twits.

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1 For those of you not in-the-know: twitter is an online messaging system that allows for 140 character updates broadcast to anyone who choses to “follow” you. Kinda like IM, only less invasive and lousier for chat.

Happily, because you read this blog, you are now officially in-the-know. You’re welcome.

2 I’ve kept my twitter identity secret by using a codename. Go ahead, try to guess.

3 I should qualify: only reasonable candidates. Ron Paul: you’re out. Right now, my parents (and Justine) are probably freaked out that I consider John Edwards a reasonable candidate. You will be relieved to note that I have not listed Hillary. Frankly, she scares me.

19 November 2007

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  1. # Comment by Don and Justine on Nov 20, 10:52 AM:

    I consider John Edwards AND Obama as reasonable candidates. Well, reasonable in the larger sense that pretty much all of them are unfortunate choices, but since we are forced to choose one of the lot, it may as well be one of those two…

    And Ron Paul is a freaky big deal here in good ole’ Utah County. We should move.

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