With all respect to the voters of Penrith, the Coalition will win the byelection on Saturday in a canter. Indeed it could win while hopping on hind legs and juggling kittens. Labor continues to lurch from one disaster to the next and, out west, the plucky Greens are a sideshow. However, this is something the Greens are evidently trying to embrace, as they have initiated the ''world's first Twitter election debate'', which will run today from 11.15am to 11.45am. The Greens MP Lee Rhiannon, who has managed to get the Premier, Kristina Keneally, and the Opposition Leader, Barry O'Farrell, on board, conceded that the idea was a gimmick to shoulder the Greens into the election ruck. But she argued that traditional campaigning - ''wandering the shopping malls'', for example - has become so stage-managed that new approaches are required. ''Socal media is real, and more and more people are using it,'' she said. ''It'll be very interesting to see how we use our 140 characters to give solid, decent answers.'' It sure will. Rhiannon also conceded that the Greens had no chance but said, ''We see it as Labor deserve to lose but the Liberals don't deserve to win.'' Keneally, who by the sounds of it is hopping from foot to foot in anticipation, released a statement yesterday in which she said: ''As an avid new media user, I'm looking forward to the challenge.'' Avidity is one thing, familiarity another. Keneally's release mixed up the Twitter hash tag, using ''penrithdebate#:'' not the correct #penrithdebate. One Greens fan has already had a pop: ''A twitter debate?!?!?! this will obviously favor labor and the libs, who don't have too many ideas that take more than 150 [sic] characters to describe.'' Rhiannon said she thought it wouldn't be easy for any of the debaters. ''It's a challenge for us. But it's another way to bring the public closer to the politician.'' Oh, what a tweet.