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It was a relatively quiet week in Alabama politics on Twitter, but there were still some items of interest. We welcomed candidate for Alabama’s 3rd Congressional district seat, Josh Segall to Twitter this week. Though I’m not sure the person running his Twitter account should continue using the number of hashtags they have started out with…
Join me tomorrow at a meeting with River Region Dems http://bit.ly/c0wtDv #AL03 #AL3 #montgomery #segall #alabama#congress #al
I’m pretty tuned in to common hashtags for Alabama politics and none of the ones they used in their first two tweets are in common usage. The account finally hit on the most common hashtag: #alpolitics, in it’s third time out.
For the uneducated, hashtags are a way to “flag” a tweet or add it to a category of interest. You can certainly start a hashtag that others may want to use, but if no one else is using it there isn’t much point. I would advise sticking with the #alpolitics tag as that will get to the widest audience of interest.
Next we have Bradley Byrne (@BradleyByrne), who seems to be in a bit of a Twitter rut…he only offered nine tweets this week and these were four of them:
Looking forward to being on the Leland Whaley radio show in Birmingham at 10:00. 100.5 FM.
Looking forward to campaign stops in north Jefferson County.
Anyone else notice a pattern? Trying to communicate a message of optimism perhaps…always looking forward?
Sen. Paul Sanford offered some insight into his feelings on the debate over the $1 billion roads bill proposed by Sen. Lowell Barron:
The bill ended up passing 25-10 and we will move on to Spring Break week in the legislature, but hopefull that will not stop the flow of interesting observations and insights from the Alabama politics universe on Twitter.
Was there something I missed this week? Please post it in the comments and remember you can cut and paste candidates for “Tweets of the Week” in the textbox in the right sidebar here at The World Around You.
UPDATE: Brian from Flashpoint reminded me in the comments below that I left out some of the funniest tweets from the committee hearing on cockfighting legislation by Rep. Phil Williams (via @vote4phil)
2 hour hearing on cockfighting. Just shoot me.
3hours of cockfighting. Now it’s about gambling. Can I make an “electronic cockfighting machine”???
Now it’s about the fights and violent crimes that break out at cockfights. Anyone remember “little Jerry Seinfeld”???
More than 3 birds constitutes “a flock of cocks”.
I also was reminded that Robert Bentley tweeted the following:
Don’t forget to follow Dr. Bentley on Twitter @Bentley2010 http://bit.ly/aWKzwO
For those who are not Twitter proficient, only those who were already following him could see that message. I called this out at the time and was informed by the campaign that the message was “pushed” to Twitter from their Facebook account…but that doesn’t change the fact that it looked odd.
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