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Jeffrey Brown talks with the Daily Download's Howard Kurtz and Lauren Ashburn about the disconnect between President Obama's Twitter support and public opinion poll data. They also look at the president's efforts to push his administration's policies on immigration and gun control on social media.
... wouldn't normally be part of these kinds of debates. LAUREN ASHBURN: Correct. GWEN IFILL: Very interesting. Well, we had another big, important user on Twitter this week who is embracing -- someone who already has 1.2 billion followers before he ever joined Twitter. And that's the pope, who ...
... What kind of last-minute messages are voters getting on their computers and their mobile devices? HOWARD KURTZ: Campaigns pulling out the stops online. On Twitter, for example, Lauren Ashburn got a direct message signed Barack Obama saying, use your Twitter influence to help us turn out the vote, so ...
Politics editor Christina Bellantoni answered your questions Monday about the town hall presidential debate during a live Twitter chat. See the archived chat below and look for more coverage on the second presidential debate Tuesday on our website where we'll have a live stream and live blog beginning in ...
EmbedVideo(4272, 482, 304); NewsHour correspondent Hari Sreenivasan interviewed Twitter's Adam Sharp on Tuesday about what the so-called "Twitter Political Index" says about the candidates. The index tracks Twitter users' attitudes about the candidates, and how they've changed over time. On this particular Tuesday during the Republican ...
Adam Sharp talks to NewsHour correspondent Hari Sreenivasan about the Twitter Political Index, which gauges user's attitudes toward the 2012 presidential candidates by looking at their tweets.
When New York Times tech reporter David Pogue lost his iPhone, he turned to his 1.4 million Twitter followers for help. And the online crowd responded, tracking his phone down in just a few hours. Though the story had a happy ending, the experience revealed real questions about modern ...
... remarks at Fort Myers, Florida today, President Obama called for a moment of silence, but made no mention of gun control policy. Meanwhile, on the Twitterverse, the subject surged to life. For example, there was this conversation between authors Salman Rushdie and Philip Gourevitch: @SalmanRushdie Unless politicians push aggressive relentless ...
... Sunday, one of the hottest topics on voters' minds is the violence connected to drug-trafficking. On Wednesday, NewsHour senior correspondent Margaret Warner hosted a Twitter conversation from Mexico on what to do about the drug war. Five reporters and analysts with varying perspectives joined Warner for a conversation in ...
As part of an ongoing series on how candidates use social media this election season, Margaret Warner and journalists Lauren Ashburn and Howard Kurtz of Daily-Download.com discuss how parody accounts of politicians and surrogates on Twitter and Pinterest are creating buzz online. ... JEFFREY BROWN: Back to politics now ...
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