Twitter & Election Day

Twitter wasn't big in 2008, so I'm wondering how it will play into tonight's reporting of the results.

MSM has tried, with limited success, to wait before calling anything until polls close. Twitter will have no such restraint in a world full of itchy twitter fingers.

I'm already seeing tweets about turnout, like Ed Rendell saying black turnout is higher than in '08. Really? How does he know?

Hoping to keep this on topic- ish. Thanks, Moddy.

 

Interestingly, in talking to a number of my friends who are still in the business -- a number of the bosses have put, for all intents and purposes, a gag order on Twitter until the results are known. As in "do not comment on exit polls or on anything until the thing is called officially"

 

I've been getting Tweets from Mitt Romney periodically all during the day saying America needs to get back on track, time for a change, make sure you vote, re-Tweet this message to friends who haven't voted, etc.

All very well done. The Romney campaign seems to have a pretty good handle on the technology. I've said it before but the Romney campaign will go down as one of the best run in history. Not sure about the Obama campaign - has anyone been getting Tweets from them?

Drudge is also very good with Twitter and I don't think he'll embargo anything he feels newsworthy. If Drudge reports something - then does that give other media the OK to report it as well? Could there be situations where someone leaks something to Drudge just so they can go ahead with their own story?

 

Short answer -- no, the fact that Drudge "reported" something does not give anyone carte blanche to run with it.

 

I've been getting a tweets all day from Donald Trump asking thought provoking questions on Obama Presidency.

2nd to that I seem to be getting a lot of tweets promoting A.J. McCarron for the Heisman.

Roll Tide !

 

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All very well done. The Romney campaign seems to have a pretty good handle on the technology. I've said it before but the Romney campaign will go down as one of the best run in history. Not sure about the Obama campaign - has anyone been getting Tweets from them?

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I've been getting Obama tweets.

 

I wonder if that will lead to multiple races being called by folks not in the media.

 

I hope the newsside guys are sharing their pizza with the sports department tonight.

 

Some of us are working on both sides.

 

It could - AP will be making calls all night.

I think there could be a lot "blogger" types making calls

 

Hey!

I was on Twitter in 2008!

It was back when people still said about Twitter, "No one cares what you had for breakfast." But now, photos of breakfast are the coolest thing ever.

I'll be saving election-related Tweets at the end of the night, for posterity.