Former IRS Attorny and currecnt Congresswoman Michel Bachmann has 112,000 followrs on Twitter, and Team Bachmann has 33,000 followers. But… Get this from Ben Smith:
The outraged Michele Bachmann campaign today blasted an email to its list asking that supporters respond to CBS News and its political director John Dickerson, who limited her time at yesterday’s debate, with specific action:
Please show your support by tweeting your outrage to CBSNEWS and John Dickerson or posting on Facebook to give them a piece of your mind. Afterwards, I hope you will make a donation to Michele’s campaign to ensure she has the funds necessary to fight back against the liberal media.
The email, noted by the Times’s Jeremy Peters, went to one of the biggest email lists in politics, and went out to the people who forwarded it me a bit after noon today. The request for action was in its last paragraph.
But a search of Twitter suggests that virtually nobody acted on it: searching “jdickerson” and “Bachmann” turned up just three outraged tweets this afternoon. A similar search around @cbsnews turns up another handful,and if the word “Bachmann” is removed, you’ll find another couple dozen complaints that seem primarily to be from supporters of Ron Paul.
This kind of social media campaign can be a sign of a candidate’s grassroots strength. Or, in this case, it can be a sign of apparent weakness.
