How @Elliott_Echols Won Twitter

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Ali Akbar called me Friday afternoon to tell me that the New York Times had mocked a young Republican operative:

Seven months after a report described the Republican Party’s image as “old and detached from pop culture,” it has hired Elliott Echols, 23, to serve as its first national youth director. . . .
Raffi Williams, the R.N.C. spokesman for youth media, said Mr. Echols was chosen because of his organizing and recruitment experience with College Republican groups. . . .
But hours after his announcement, the man who would be in charge of growing Republican support among the voting bloc most active on social media had fewer than 600 followers on Twitter. . . .

Ali decided to fix that problem. He went to work promoting Echols on Twitter, while also sending around e-mails urging others to join the crusade and demonstrate to the New York Times the effectiveness of conservative grassroots New Media activism on “Follow Friday.”

 

By 5 p.m. ET Friday, Elliot Echols had more than 1,500 Twitter followers. As of 9 a.m. ET today, Elliott had more than 2,500 followers.

Ashley Southall, the New York Times reporter who wrote that story?

Oh, she’s got 720 Twitter followers.

As a digital strategist, Ali likes to tell about the time a friend introduced him to someone at a conservative conference.

“This is Ali, he’s . . . He does . . . Ali, what do you do?”

This. He does this. #WINNING!

Ali is also being sued — along with 20 other defendants, including Michelle Malkin, Glenn Beck, Erick Erickson, and Simon & Schuster — by convicted bomber-turned-progressive activist Brett Kimberlin. Maybe the New York Times would be interested in that story, eh?

 

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  3. My comments are pedantic and trite for the most part and my tweeting consists of, in the main, tweeting links to other peoples work. Much like the guy leading the tour, “See what someone else has done folks!” Pretty good description of useless to me.

  6. Keep getting a “problems following this Twitter” message ehen I try to follow Elliot. Is Twitter censoring conservative voices?

  7. OT but kinda sorta related. I watched Cathy McMorris Rogers interviewed on CSPAN while having coffee his morning. She mentioned how as part of GOP House leadership she is pushing the GOP to embrace new media as part of its overall communication strategy. Then she uttered a couple of stats that floored me. I had no idea the average age of a GOP member in the House today is 5 years younger than the average Democrat. And that the House GOP leadership team is 16 years younger than the Democrat leadership team.
    I guess I had no idea because the media persists in perpetuating the idea that the GOP is the party of old white men.

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