When Obama made the spilled milk joke, there was this collective groan that went on across the country on Twitter. And you used to have to wait until, you know, they’d cut away to the pundits and these 20 people in a room with dialing knobs- you don’t have to do that anymore. Washington is…actively engaging in that real-time feedback loop now. Instead of waiting for that rebuttal at the end, there were two Republican legislators that were live-tweeting a rebuttal to the state of the union. In the 2012 elections, candidates that don’t participate on Twitter while the debates and conversation is happening will be left behind, because tomorrow morning will be too late to react to what was said the day before.
— Dick Costolo, Twitter CEO, making me so hot by talking about “a vehicle to connect directly to the people.”
