September 1, 2009

'Poll leak' tweets alarm Germans

Forecasts for Sunday's results in Saarland, Thuringia and Saxony appeared on Twitter 90 minutes before polling stations closed in the three states.

According to Spiegel magazine via the BBC, the assumption is that the information in the Twitter postings was leaked from either within political parties or the media.

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