CNN is the place I go for news. Rick Sanchez is the anchor of a news program on CNN at 3 p.m. on weekdays. He uses Twitter to gauge his viewers' reactions to certain issues, and he frequently uses the networking site while he is broadcasting live.
After signing up for a Twitter account, I realized that two of my favorite anchors, Sanchez and Anderson Cooper, both use Twitter. Their updates frequently link to either full stories or blogs with frequent updates. It is an excellent way for news to become disseminated even faster and farther.
Going into this year's election, I thought that social media like Facebook would play a pivotal role in the outcome of not only the primaries but also the general election. It has not played as significant a role as I would have thought, but Barack Obama has utlitized facets of new media such as text messaging and Twitter as well.
Like Sanchez and Cooper, Obama links to news stories, events and multimedia on his Twitter to actively disseminate news about his campaign in a way that I did not imagine when I made my prediction about new media's role in the election mid-way through last year.
Will Obama's use of social media like Twitter give him an edge over John McCain in this fall's presidential election? I guess we'll see November 4th!
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