Comments on: Maine gubernatorial candidate engagement on Twitter

By: A few thoughts as we head into the Primaries | Politicator | The Maine Observer — The online newspaper of the pine tree state

Sun, 04 Jul 2010 15:02:53 +0000

[...] Russell has an interesting analysis of each candidate’s community engagement via Twitter (hat tip to Pattie Barry for the link). Scarcelli seems to lead the pack both in total tweets and [...]

By: A few thoughts as we head into primary day | Davis

A few thoughts as we head into primary day | Davis — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 05:30:05 +0000

By: Primary day Twitter buzz | JustinRussell.com

Primary day Twitter buzz | JustinRussell.com — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 22:31:02 +0000

[...] gray counts any additional tweets today from those users. Of note: the three candidates who have engaged with users the most on Twitter generated the largest buzz from unique users [...]

By: NancyEH

NancyEH — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 19:09:45 +0000

If s/he is going to use Twitter, each candidate should have a staffer/volunteer to watch the several hashtags and his/her own name for opportunities to answer questions, pose questions and generally “engage” with citizens. So far, I haven’t seen much of that.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 17:24:55 +0000

If you think the “spontaneous” floor demonstrations at the state convention is in any way an accurate measure of rank and file support of a candidate, you’re badly mistaken. 300,000 registered Ds in Maine and barely 1,000 took part at the convention, most of them brought there by the different candidates.

By: KayInMaine

KayInMaine — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 16:17:52 +0000

I would say it’s because the Scarcelli camp doesn’t have a lot of money and is using Twitter as a way to keep in contact. At the Maine Democratic State Convention, there weren’t very many supporters there for her compared to what Rowe had. Just my two cents…