Tweeting to the Left: Twitter’s Hidden Bias

AIM, 11/18/2009 by Allie Duzett - "Twitter has taken the social media world by a storm with its innovative medium for microblogging; however, it turns out, not even social media is free from bias. Recently, Twitter announced that it would be eventually deleting its "suggested user" feature-because of its pro-Democratic bias."

FYI: A higher percentage of Republicans use Twitter in the national political sphere: 22.3 percent of congressional Republicans use Twitter, while only 8.5 percent of congressional Democrats do. As of September 2009, Republicans in Congress were out-tweeting Democratic representatives; 64 percent of congressional tweets came from Republicans, as opposed to the Democratic Party's embarrassing 36 percent. Read more at Accuracy in Media (AIM)...