Brett Banter

Recently, Spencer launched a series of live South Carolina political "Twitter chats", calling the first one an 'experiment'. We witnessed the first chat live, and our takeaway is that he has really hit on a powerful way to connect people across the state in South Carolina political conversation through social media. Many Twitter-users know how to follow a "live Twitter chat". Simply do a Twitter search for the official hashtag (#) associated with any particular chat and follow the conversation by continually updating the seach for the hashtag.

Spencer's first official live political Twitter chat took place on November 11 with Olivier Blanchard, a well-known Greenville-based social media and marketing expert with a strong interest in politics. That discussion proved so successful and interactive he followed it a week later with another chat with Trey Pennington, another Upstate social media and marketing entrepreneur with a political background. Just this week, Spencer hosted Wesley Donehue, the South Carolina Senate Republican Caucus’ political and communications director who is also the technology director for the state GOP, for a third live chat.

Spencer's political chats are well worth an hour of your time and truly have the capacity to heighten the political conversation in our state. When he can, Spencer posts follow-up recaps of the chats on his blog Crazyworld. To become a part of his political chats, follow the official hashtag #scpol.