Did you wonder what #dontgo means? (I did.)
Thursday, August 07, 2008 by Dave Winer.
I've found the hash tags people were putting on their twits really annoying, never thought they would catch on, until a few days ago I started hearing about #dontgo -- and until this morning I didn't know what it was about. 
Read this e.politics post, it explains.
Republicans have been using Twitter to organize.
An innovation that came from the tech community is being used by the political bloggers on Twitter.
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