#Gosnell 'Tweet-Up' Grabs Attention As Grisly Murder Trial Continues
April 14, 2013
 Philadelphia, PA - As week five of the Gosnell trial is set to begin on Monday morning, the weekend saw a flood of news articles and blog stories concerning the gruesome murder trial after it was essentially ignored by the mainstream media for four weeks. The coverage was prompted by a "Tweet-Up" that trended in the number one spot on Twitter most of the day on Friday.
"The tweet-up was a huge success and did what it was intended to do, and that was to show the mainstream media that there is a huge interest in seeing coverage of the Gosnell murder trial. We hoped that the tweet-up would pressure the media to cover the story," said Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue, who sponsored the event along with Bryan Kemper of Stand True and Andy Moore, creator of AbortionWiki.org.
About 10,000 people on Facebook signed up to participate, but the event took off, dominating the trending chart, which is no easy task.
"I couldn't hit the 'new tweets' button fast enough. At one point there were about 100 tweets coming as fast as I could push the refresh button," said Newman.
The tweet up helped bypass the mainstream media and educate vast numbers of twitter users that otherwise would never have heard of Gosnell, and in doing so prompted several media outlets to begin publishing stories, many for the first time. Anderson Cooper of CNN broadcasted a noteworthy segment on the Gosnell story that was remarkably fair considering the Cooper's leftist leanings.
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