I've been thinking a lot lately about the activist filter bubble, the reverberating echo-chamber of insular social media and political networks that keeps progressives marginal and talking to ourselves. Recently, I've had several different Tea Party twitter accounts follow me (at least four this week alone) and began talking to friends about whether or not this means they are:

1) building lists of progressive activists for potential future smear-campaigns;

2) following their opposition so they can Retweet things out of context to scare/outrage their base; or