I personally missed most of the State of the State address earlier. Don’t have TV or full Internet access until tomorrow, so I couldn’t check it out. I’ll have a response tomorrow, but I did follow a number of people on Twitter who were responding to the speech as it went on. This is a new thing in Florida politics to have a wide range of people responding to the speech in real-time. We had a wide range of people from different parts of the political sphere tweeting while the governor spoke. Here’s how they did.
@steveschale…5 tweets, 2 @ replies, no tags, best: “Does Crist just make up statistics?”
@eric_jotkoff…11 tweets, 0 @ replies, no tags, best: “Crist: ‘Put solutions above credit’ funny since Crist always does nothing then holds a presser taking credit for it”
@DanGelber…3 tweets, 0 @ replies, good tags, best: “Final on SOTS. Lofty, bipartisan but zero specifics on how fund public schools in peril. Ignores next weeks loss of revenue!”
@StateOfSunshine…10 tweets, 4 @ replies, good tags, best: “Sen. Lawson bemoaning tax breaks for small businesses and investors – calling them ‘well heeled special interests.’”
@friedgator…2 tweets, 0 @ replies, no tags, best: “That speech by charlie was terrible, looks like he’s given up and running for Senate. Read the liveblog here: http://bit.ly/SZj0Y”
That’s who I found that followed the State of the State live. Did I miss anyone?
And this gets me thinking, we really need to come up with a hash tag for Florida Progressives on Twitter. Suggestions?
Conservatives have been using Twitter more at the national level. I’ve wondered why for a while. Someone suggested it was because all conservative slogans can fit into 140 characters or less. I think it may have something to do with that and the fact that the average liberal is a little too much in love with his or her solutions and thoughts that they can’t narrow it down to that small an amount of space.
Missed the State of the State. Can I see it online somewhere?
Have you been following Hasner’s hissy fit over the Muslims coming to Tallahassee next week? I’d like to hear your take on it.
Welcome back!
I’ll have a response to the SotS later and will include the online links. And I’ll be getting to Hasner as well. Maybe even on the radio show.
Kenneth — Sorry our twittering suffered, looking forward to your reaction later today.
Susan — we have a link to the text in our morning update:
http://www.friedgator.com/2009/03/gatornuggets-for-march-4th-state-of-the-state-hangover-edition.html