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Article: Political Coverage That's All a-Twitter; When Each Character Counts, the News Update Is Short and Tweet
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- The Washington Post
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- August 26, 2008
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John Dickerson, who covers the presidential campaign almost
single-handedly for Slate, is a man of few words.
He's quite chatty in person, and his online dispatches are
reasonably meaty. But here at the Democratic convention, Dickerson
is also sharing his views on Twitter.com, which requires extreme
brevity.
"Obama picked Biden which is really going to decrease Hillary's
chances at being his Vice President," he deadpanned right after the
announcement.
It is the digital equivalent of a sound bite, a throat-clearing,
a terse observation or two for a cloistered community online. How
much can you say, after all, within the official limit of 140
characters (which this paragraph has already ...
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