Romney drops $100K on Twitter
Source: Salon
The Romney campaign is officially the first campaign to buy space on Twitter. The Wall Street Journal reported that it purchased the hashtag, “#RomneyRyan2012,” as a nationally promoted trending topic on Thursday night. The campaign’s digital director, Zac Moffatt, told Mashable, “I really think that this convention is achieving what it set out to do, which was to provide a convention without walls.” As of 9 p.m. last night, the hashtag had amassed 10,000 unique tweets. The whole promotion cost Romney’s campaign at least $120,000.
However, the effort may not have paid off. The Twitter stream for “#RomneyRyan2012″ is filled with anti-Romney sentiments, many of which were retweeted hundreds of times due to being so prominently displayed:
Mitt Romney pulled off an amazing feat tonight. He spoke for 30 minutes without saying anything. #RomneyRyan2012 #RNC2012
— Adam Hammer (@AdamHammer) August 31, 2012
#RomneyRyan2012 sounds like a disaster plan for America!
— ilovesweat.com ૐ (@ilovesweat) August 31, 2012
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Twitter link:
http://twitter.com/#!/search/?q=%23RomneyRyan2012
Current top tweet:
Jeremy Morgan
@JeremyCMorgan
Finally a team brave enough to stand up for the millionaires and protect us from Schoolteachers and Firefighters #RomneyRyan2012 #GOP2012
Retweeted 7326 times
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