With ‘$Cashtags,’ Twitter plays greater campaign finance role

September 15, 2015 publisher almost-no-one, build-profit, facebook, google-maps, hillary-clinton, known-locally, names-on-google, sanders, south-america, the-former, twitter

By Alana Wise and Ginger Gibson NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – When Senator Bernie Sanders’ presidential election campaign took over earlier this year the Twitter and Facebook accounts he had used in his Senate election races, there was almost no-one following him. Now, Sanders' campaign has 1.4 million Facebook likes – more than his rival for the Democratic nomination Hillary Clinton, who is much better known

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With ‘$Cashtags,’ Twitter plays greater campaign finance role