Monday, April 13, 2015

This Is The Most Important Tweet About Hillary’s Announcement And Everyone Pretty Much Ignored It

by Judd Legum 
Posted on April 12, 2015 at 8:37 pm Updated: April 12, 2015 at 10:49 pm
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On Sunday, Hillary Clinton announced she’d run for president in 2016. Her intentions were hardly secret as key staff were already hired and a campaign headquarters was recently established in Brooklyn
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But that didn’t stop an avalanche of commentary on Twitter on whether her announcement was “late” and her new campaign logo. But the most important tweet, by her campaign chairman John Podesta*, was mostly ignored.
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Podesta’s tweet was retweeted about 130 times in the first four hours but none of the retweets were by verified users, other than one ThinkProgress reporter — journalists at major media outlets typically have verified Twitter accounts. The tweet has also not been embedded in a news article by any major publication.
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