The Hill News

Twitter CEO Dick Costolo thinks if candidates don’t tweet, they’re going to get left behind in the new digital age of microblogging. He pointed in particular to presidential candidates when asked about Twitter in politics at the “D: Dive Into Media” conference in California Monday evening.

“2012 is going to be the Twitter election,” he said, according to Tech Crunch. “Candidates who don’t participate on Twitter while the debates are going on will be left behind because the next morning is too late to respond.”

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