How political campaigns use Twitter to shape media coverage

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[Commentary] Communications staffers’ goals are shifting away from winning individual 24-hour news cycles, and toward domination of shorter windows of time on social media, especially Twitter. Staffers interviewed described how well-timed and contextually appropriate tweets could manipulate “how journalists saw and understood the political context and the frames they used in their coverage.”


How political campaigns use Twitter to shape media coverage