Politics Never Smelled So Tweet

At midnight Thursday, Twitter launched election.twitter.com, the first specialized section of its site. Like Twitter’s main service, it is dominated by a big white box. But instead of typing an answer to “What are you doing?” the election site asks “What do you think?”

Below that box is a constantly scrolling display of the thoughts (called “tweets” in Twitterspeak) of other Twitter users. These include all the tweets entered on the election page as well as those entered in any other part of the service with obvious election-related phrases, such as “Palin.” Read more...

[The Caucus via Bits Blog - NYTimes]

emily | 8:50 AM | Twitter |
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