Twitter for President

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Twitter was a big hit at SXSW; I think that had something to do with it being a large number of people sharing a similar experience.  Twitter seemed to make it easy to organize decentralized groups.   With the social-networking side of Twitter people are able to form highly dynamic groups that stay in close communication regardless of proximity.  The @usersname convention that has been adopted to reply to people adds a viral buzz aspect to allow information to spread like wildfire.

This is going to have a huge impact on the 2008 elections (as long as Twitter adoption keeps growing).   There has been lots of talk about 2008 being The YouTube Election.  While I am sure YouTube will be a popular campaign tool in 2008, Twitter is going to be a much more valuable tool to the thousands of political operatives.

Note: I am assumming a critical mass of Twitter users will turn on SMS notifications.  That may be a bad assumption since some people have to pay for each SMS they receive.