ABC News will be interviewing John McCain on Twitter.
One of the biggest complaints about Twitter is that its 140-character limit is simply not enough to say what you need to say sometimes. Of course, this limit works both ways — it can also stop people from going on for too long about something. And that’s something that politicians are known for. So in a way, an interview with a politician conducted entirely over Twitter almost makes sense. Almost.
And that’s exactly what ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos is planning to do next week. On Tuesday, Stephanopoulos will interview senator and former presidential candidate John McCain for his show, “This Week.” To conduct what the network is calling the first “twitterview,” both the questions and answers will be sent out via Twitter, bound by the 140 character limit.
The interview, which can be “seen” at noon eastern standard time on Twitter, will last between 10 and 15 minutes. Of course, to see both the questions and the responses, you’ll need to follow both Stephanopoulos and McCain. Stephanopoulos will be soliciting questions to ask McCain over Twitter as well.
Twitter seems to be going main stream big time. Mike Arrington says all these mentions in the media is helping twitter see an explosive growth rate of 55% month-to-month in Februalry 2009.
Is this the same John McCain who didn’t know ANYTHING about the internet? Now we ave a technologically-savvy president..well, you know the rest.
Comment by Derrick — March 13, 2009 @ 6:42 pm
It just seems to me that a majority of the politicians - and some republican civilians - now want to jump on the ”let’s do what Obama does” bandwagon because ”it makes sense”.
Comment by Derrick — March 13, 2009 @ 6:46 pm