So it seems that Barack Obama’s master plan to text all of his adoring obamatons with his vice presidential pick before anyone else was a complete and total failure (a lot like the pick itself). Yes, you heard it right, the plan heralded by “unbiased” reporters and preteens alike took a turn for the worst last night.
Yup apparently supporters who signed up for the special texts were not the first to be notified, despite the promise from the Obama campaign, and not by a long shot.
Some of the first reports in the media came around 11pm on the east coast and the conformations came to the media around 1am. So what time did the loyal supporters get their special notifications? 3am on the east coast… 3am, yea… great job picking a time to notify people who, at least for a while, liked you. (Even my little sister doesn’t text me at that time)
In case you didn’t take the time to do the math thats a full 2 hours after everyone else in the world already knew. Well, so much for that idea.
It’s too bad the wait is over though. It was getting awfully fun watching all the “professional” “journalists” fawning over their cell phones and waiting for what one can only imagine is their first text message (and one from their most favoritest bff ever none the less) as though they had discovered a sort of electronic botox or the 21 centuries fountain of youth.
UPDATE: Looks like the gaffe machine is up and running for Obama-Biden ’08…
UPDATE: Obama failure made even bigger in contrast to McCain’s VP roll out
UPDATE: 3am text… is it a possible Kennedy-like response to Hillary 3am ad? You know… ask not who can answer the phone for you at 3am – ask who you can answer the phone for at 3am.
It must take some kinda special effort to piss off geeks twice in the same instance.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/cnet/20080824/tc_cnet/83011357831002416338
You didn’t SMS me and you chose some anti-tech-freedom jerk! Thas gonna go over well.
I mean this with a great deal of respect and honesty, but, perhaps if you got out more, you’d know that women of all ages love to text.
Well, I already knew that (and actually lots of people like to text, myself included) but what you seem to miss is that preteen girls are particularly fond of texting…