After #Eastwooding Exits, Dems Take Their Seat at the Social Table
Last week’s Republican Convention provided perhaps the most entertaining — albeit, not on purpose — political social meme on the Web, with Hollywood actor Clint Eastwood’s odd performance with an empty chair.
That quickly set off an instant flood of pictures posted on Twitter of people chastising their chairs — dubbed, of course, #Eastwooding.
And also the very funny Twitter account @invisibleobama, who had a nice Labor Day tip for us all:
On this Labor Day, take a moment to remember that today is the last day it’s appropriate to wear invisible seersucker anything.
— Invisible Obama (@InvisibleObama) September 3, 2012
Even President Barack Obama’s tweet-staff got into it by posting the photo below, with the caption: “This seat’s taken.”
This seat’s taken. OFA.BO/c2gbfi, twitter.com/BarackObama/st…
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) August 31, 2012
Now that we are done making fun of inanimate objects, it will be interesting to see what pops up online this coming week at the Democratic Convention, which officially starts tomorrow in Charlotte, N.C.
Obviously, there are Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Flickr links from the main convention homepage, but there is also a share page in which users are being asked to fill-in-the-tweet: “I nominate Barack Obama Because …”
No surprise, the tweets are uniformly upbeat — and likely vetted — which is what you get with socially engineered social media.
Which is why what happens without the manipulations of the message-makers and political pros — that unexpected moment of reality just made for the medium — will be much more interesting to see as the week goes on.
