Sarah Palin Joins Twitter

Sarah Palin fans, start your tweeting! Your eagle has landed, and, as of this writing, she has left three Twitter updates. If you are scratching your head and wondering why Governor Palin has felt the need to join the micro-blogging craze, then you really haven't been paying close attention to the changing landscape of American politics. John McCain does it. Mike Huckabee does it. Man, anybody who wants to be the next somebody in politics is doing it.

Seriously, Twitter is a networking tool. Like Facebook, MySpace and all the rest, Twitter is an ideal way for a politician to build and foster a community of loyal supporters. So far, Palin has roughly three thousand "followers" and her web presence also includes a new legal defense fund. But what will the Alaska Governor actually be tweeting about? Check out her second message:

AP gravely misquoted my staff, saying I "changed my mind" on the stimulus package. For accurate info go to link.

Here's the AP's account of Palin's ongoing stimulus evolution, so that you can decide who is right on this one.

Maybe the former Vice Presidential candidate will use Twitter to attempt to debunk what she sees as biased media coverage by sending readers to her own biased press releases. Will this strategy work? Time will tell.


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