Election 2008 (or should we call it Election 2.0?) embraced technology again by engaging a new and interesting debate platform. Starting yesterday - the Personal Democracy Forum has sponsored a Twitter debate between the McCain camp and the Obama camp.
I'll admit that when I first tried Twitter - I wasn't impressed. The character limit was too repressive (I am not a person of few words) and the tag line " What are you doing?" sounded to me like we were going to facilitate a whole new generation of legalized stalking.
But then a funny thing happened - I got used to it. It became fun. Even if noone cared, I put out little Tweets into cyberspace and enjoyed it. After all, who doesn't like being listened to?
Now my hope is that this new use of Twitter doesn't crash the already fragile infrastructure. The good news is that our beloved Twitter and its character limit will FORCE brevity upon our wordy politician friends.
