According to one website that claims to offer a psychological analysis of Twitter users by measuring the frequency of tweet themes against a metric of averages, the Santa Fe Reporter’s editorial staff is big on money, leisure and negativity while eschewing sex, work and the media.

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This week, SFR staff writer Corey Pein revealed the identity of mayoral candidate Asenath Kepler’s parody “tweeter.”

Santa Fean Jaime Dean decided the clumsy use of social networking by political candidates deserved some good-natured mockery and fired up a Twitter account for “Asinine Kepler” called Ass4Mayor.

Dean isn’t exactly contributing to a heightened political discourse so far, but the Twitter battle that resulted from his actions–and other revelations discovered in perusing the new media efforts of Santa Fe area politicians–demonstrate that you can lead a politician to the internet, but you can’t make him think.

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OK, I know we’re Santa Fe and we shouldn’t mess around with Albuquerque politics, but tomorrow is election day and…I can’t help myself. This is, hands down, the silliest 11th hour appeal I’ve ever read from a candidate. You may need to click to enlarge.

For the search engine crawlers, here’s the text of Mayor Marty Chavez’s 10pm, election eve tweet:

I humbly ask u 4 ur vote tomorrow & ur help keeping ABQ moving forward. Click here 2 find your polling place tomorrow: http://bit.ly/138s6h

OK, so set aside for a moment that the Mayor of Albuquerque is writing messages to us as if we were 15 year olds. That’s just annoying and a little bit pathetic. One could even argue it encourages illiteracy. But, no, let’s not go there. Let’s analyze.

Mayor Chavez spells out “tomorrow” not once, but twice, a totally of 16 characters. In order to pay for his double helping of tomorrow, he steals six letters from you and yours. He collects another eight letters by gutting Albuquerque. Then he cuts corners with the prepositions and leaves a single unspent character. Technically, he can claim he’s a pay-as-you-go type of Tweeter, who can come in under budget to boot.

Call me capricious, but if I was a voter teetering between Chavez and challenger Richard Romero, this slimy tweet the night before would’ve pushed me over. But maybe I’m reading too much into it…. (ba-dum-dum).

If your thoughts are with the College of Santa Fe, if you’re sitting in on this week’s public meetings, make sure you post a tweet about it with #CSF in it.

Not on Twitter? Dude, it takes like two minutes. Councilor Matt Ortiz is a tweeter.

After the jump: The official #CSF Twitter Ticker and the schedule of public hearings and open meetings.

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In this week’s Reporter I mention a comic named Baratunde Thurston, who revealed himself to be the Twitter user @the_swine_flu. Well, that reveal occurred during New York City’s version of Ignite, a sort of poetry slam for tech nerds. At these events, participants are given five minutes to go over 20-slide presentation, usually about something tech-biz.

The first Ignite New Mexico is on July 15 at the UNM student union. Here’s its super cool vote-up-the-tops page…though I do wish they were a few that were slightly, err, less technical.

(Full disclosure: I presented at its predecessor, Ignite Santa Fe, and one of the organizers, @dthompson, recently helped SFReeper sort out its comments problem.)

(hat tip to @fbihop for tweeting me on to the vid)