Heritage Wins Tweetie Award for Best Use of Twitter
Twitter recognized The Heritage Foundation’s digital team for its creative use of the micro-blogging platform today in an award ceremony hosted by Twitter DC. Heritage… Read More
Top 10 Tweets of 2013
It’s time to look back at our year in tweets. It’s been fun conversing with all of our supporters – and even some of our… Read More
What Do Some Conservatives Think of the Ryan-Murray Budget? Top Tweets
Conservative Members of Congress gathered Wednesday to talk with national press and bloggers about the Ryan-Murray budget and Obamacare, amongst other issues. Missed out on… Read More
10 Random Things That Are #MoreSuccessfulThanObamacare
Taxpayers spent $634,320,919 for a contractor to build the glitch-prone HealthCare.gov website only to watch it become a colossal failure (much like the rest of Obamacare)…. Read More
Who Do Members of Congress Follow on Twitter? Heritage, For One
The Heritage Foundation ranks among one of the most-followed Twitter accounts by Members of Congress, according to a new report published in New York Magazine…. Read More
How to Win the Internet: Sharing Stories — and Maybe a Few Cats
Cat pictures go viral because that is the language of the Internet, according to the four creative content producers who were panelists at this week’s… Read More
Diplomacy in 140 Characters: U.S. Social Media Efforts Ineffective
Diplomacy is evolving. “Warriors of the cyber heights can more effectively use information to drive the debate, galvanize action, or befuddle the masses,” Heritage’s James… Read More
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War of Tweets: The State Department Takes on Islamists
Twitter and other social media are the new battle ground in the war of ideas between Islamist radicals and the U.S. State Department. Since July… Read More
NSA, Immigration, and Obamacare: Here’s What You Missed from Conversations with Conservatives
Conservative members of Congress gathered Wednesday to talk with national press and bloggers about defunding Obamacare, the farm bill, immigration reform, and the National Security… Read More
Social Media and the Boston Attack: The Good, the Bad, and the Confused
Reddit, the website that styles itself the Internet’s front page, apologized yesterday to the people hurt by its overhasty attempts to capture the Boston… Read More
North Korea: A Neglected Human Rights Crisis
North Korea has been making headlines for its threats of preemptive nuclear attacks on the United States. In addition to North Korea’s belligerent military actions,… Read More
Top 8 Tweets from Jim DeMint’s CPAC Speech
Heritage Foundation President-elect Jim DeMint delivered last night’s keynote address at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). We shared some of the most memorable lines… Read More
Fake Twitter Accounts? Obama’s Political Group Pushes Gun Control
How far would President Obama’s supporters go to make his message dominant on gun control? Too far, according to Representative Steve Stockman’s (R-TX) office, which… Read More
Your Opinion Needed for the State Department
The State Department wants your opinion. No, not on weighty matters like the Arab Spring/Winter, relations with Russia, the state of NATO, or Chinese free-trade… Read More
Social Media in Warfare: The New Battleground
Twitter, blogs, and YouTube accompanied rockets, bombs, and aircraft as weapons in the conflict between Israel and Hamas that concluded in a ceasefire last week…. Read More
Top 15 Tweets About the Fiscal Cliff
“Fiscal Cliff” has been the catchphrase of the past few weeks, and tweets on the matter have been plentiful. We compiled a list of the… Read More
Israel and Hamas Wage Twitter War
Israel has been live blogging on its attacks as well as major strikes upon it by Hamas during the most recent crisis. Israel and Hamas… Read More
Occupy Wall Street Celebrates Hurricane Damage in New York City
The East River crests the promenade between the Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges. (Photo: ZUMA Press) East Coast residents are still reeling from the damage inflicted… Read More
Debate Time: Send Us Your Photos Tonight!
We are so excited you’ll be joining us for the vice presidential debate tonight! Share your debate watching with us—join us this evening by taking… Read More
The Death of U.S. Public Diplomacy and Lessons on How to Resurrect It
“The death of U.S. public diplomacy” was how one Twitter user last Tuesday described the now-infamous apology from the U.S. embassy in Cairo for the… Read More
Tweeting: An Olympic Sport?
The London Olympics have been dubbed the “social media Olympics.” Again, social media find their way into the big story of the day, but keeping… Read More
“Twiplomacy” Won’t Replace Diplomacy
According to a new study done by PR firm Burson-Marsteller, two-thirds of the world’s leaders have joined Twitter, including 16 members of the G-20. But… Read More
Al-Qaeda’s Service Interruption: Long May It Last
Al-Qaeda’s main Web forums have been offline for the past 11 days and counting. No government has taken credit, but if this “service interruption” actually… Read More
A Day Without Twitter?
Reporters Without Borders notes that today is World Day Against Cyber-Censorship. For some time now, the organization has been highlighting cases of oppression and abuse… Read More
Thinking Big about Social Networks Down Under
Can Twitter get you killed? Can Facebook start and stop wars? Can terrorism be financed through Paypal, and might people arm themselves through eBay? These… Read More
To Tweet or Not to Tweet: The State Department’s Digital Revolution
The U.S. State Department has jumped into the world of online communication with a vengeance. January 2012 has been designated 21st Century Statecraft month, and… Read More
Tweeting for Hearts and Minds
January 2012 is the U.S. Department of State’s “21st Century Statecraft Month.” What the State Department has in mind in this case is what former… Read More
Microblogging: The Latest Challenge for China’s Censors
China has the dubious distinction of being one of the most controlled information environments in the world. Yet even China’s army of censors can at times… Read More
Social Media Benefits Outweigh Risks for Congress
Since the launch of Facebook in 2004, social media use has skyrocketed. Facebook has more than 750 million active users, and sites like Google+, Twitter,… Read More
Washington in a Flash: Obama Makes His Pitch to La Raza
President Obama takes a break from the debt-limit talks to deliver a speech before the National Council of La Raza — a group that has… Read More
