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Election Twitter: Nice try, but…

Started by mathewi · 9 months ago

People have been talking for some time now about things that Twitter could be doing to add value to the service (apart from just managing to keep the servers up for more than a day or two at a time, which they appear to have accomplished), including mini-hubs about topics that are of intense ... Continue reading »

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  • Tom Kaserski

    9 months ago

    Our agency also built a site that aggregates tweets about the candidates. http://www.tweet08.com/
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  • Karoli

    9 months ago

    All Twitter has to do is stop being paternalistic and give power back to the people; e.g. restore track and IM services. Let us figure out how to make it interesting to us.
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  • RachelNixon

    9 months ago

    It's good to see Twitter taking this step though I, too, would have liked to see some added functionality.

    Here at NowPublic we're able to track a variety of microblogs using our Scan tool. This allows you not only to monitor posts on a story in the news but to recommend interesting posts, track keyword trends over time, see where people are posting from, and find popular links. Readers might be interested to see what microbloggers are saying right now about the Obama-McCain debate.
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  • Adam Varga

    9 months ago

    I thought the conversation twitter's election microsite is unfocused. But, I've yet to use it while a debating is going on. I think it becomes much more valuable is the conversation is focusing around an event happening in realtime.
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  • Tom Poe

    9 months ago

    How would you like to see what's happening on November 4th at your precinct? Would you like to check if there's a line, trouble with machines, maybe catch the moment to moment chaos as vote counts are manipulated? Combine Twitter with youtube updates to catch all the action of our national elections being trashed by corrupt officials. Twitter promises to let us all participate in "getting the news" directly, without corporate media filtering, censoring what we see, hear, and read. Had Obama been truly ahead of the curve, we'd all be able to focus on events at the polls around the country. He didn't, and won't, as there is this little matter of how to deal with time zones and not influencing the voters on the west coast when they learn the election is being rigged on the east coast as Twitter reports start flooding in.
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