Newt Gingrich To Announce 2012 Run Today Via Twitter, Facebook And Fox News

This afternoon, Newt Gingrich will officially jump into the 2012 campaign–with a tweet, and a status update. Gingrich is expected to make his news official via Twitter and Facebook, and then give his first official campaign interview to Sean Hannity on Fox News.

ABC’s Jonathan Karl says the first week of the Gingrich campaign will include an economics speech on Friday, a campaign rally in Atlanta Friday night, and then a swing through Iowa:

Newt will then spend almost all of next week in Iowa – a dozen campaign events spread out over Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. On Wednesday, he’ll head across the border for an event in Minnesota.

The Newt campaign organization has already started to take shape. He’s already secured space for his campaign headquarters in Atlanta and will soon have a campaign office opening in northern Virginia. And he’s hired a campaign manager: 36-year-old Rob Johnson who, most recently, ran Governor Rick Perry’s reelection campaign in Texas.

On TODAY, Chuck Todd outlined the Gingrich campaign–and how President Obama will adjust to announced Republican candidates in the race. Watch it here, from NBC:

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