Twitter and it’s friends invade the debate
You may have noticed that there is quite a large debate going on across the pond in America at the moment, it’s Obama vs McCain and via the gift of Twitter and friends everyone is invited to take part. Twitter announced on it’s blog today that it’s created a special site that puts the election conversation in one place.
Twitter E08 Features
- Hot Election Topics are determined by a variety of search queries
- The topics at the top of the page are updated every 15 minutes
- Clicking at topic filters the content based on that particular word or phrase
- Obama and McCain’s Twitter accounts are updated whenever they update
- People can participate in the box under “What do you think?”
- The main timeline is a live ticker—new updates appear every second or so
- Clicking the sidebar tabs filters the main timeline by candidate name
- We’ll be featuring notable Twitter accounts in the sidebar
- Updates made at Twitter E08 will link back to election.twitter.com
Shortly after this announcement the guys over at Twittervision created a special version for the election debate, which will again just filter the election debate tweets into map form, after getting extra server capacity to cope they should now be back online
Current TV have also teamed up with Twitter to cover the election debate. And they will overlay your tweets with the live broadcasts
Twitter users can participate by simply adding #current to the end of the tweet. So it looks like no matter where you are, if you have a twitter account you can speak your mind and follow the debate.
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