[governance] Barack Obama Victory Tweet Most Retweeted Ever

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

Well you see, without some commentary about it in this context from the original poster, it is practically impossible to tell the difference between that and idle forwarding of random news articles.

--srs (htc one x)


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From: "Ivar A. M. Hartmann" <ivarhartmann at gmail.com>
To: "governance at lists.igcaucus.org" <governance at lists.igcaucus.org>, "Suresh Ramasubramanian" <suresh at hserus.net>
Cc: "Fahd A. Batayneh" <fahd.batayneh at gmail.com>
Subject: [governance] Barack Obama Victory Tweet Most Retweeted Ever
Date: Thu, Nov 8, 2012 4:26 AM


I believe major happenings in the field of social networks are of interest
to IG.
In this case, it's more strong evidence of the use of social networks for
political speech. This relates to cyberdemocracy theories and concerns
stakeholders involved in regulating free speech online as political speech
is deemed in almost all democracies to be the type of speech that calls for
the stronger protection.
Just my opinion.
Best,
Ivar


On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 8:41 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh at hserus.net>wrote:

> May I ask your opinion on how or why a photo of a couple hugging is anyway
> remotely related to igov?
>
> --srs (iPad)
>
> On 08-Nov-2012, at 1:26, "Fahd A. Batayneh" <fahd.batayneh at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20237531
>
> The words "four more years", coupled with a photo of Barack and Michelle
> Obama embraced in a hug, have become the most retweeted Twitter post ever.
>
> Fahd
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