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February 5, 2008
Following Super Tuesday Results on Twitter
Tonight's going to be a busy night for Twitter users, with more than 20 states voting in the biggest Super Tuesday primary in US history. Twitter use has spiked during major election events, like debates and the Iowa caucuses, so tonight should be even crazier. Thankfully, the folks who run Twitter just moved their servers to a new ISP, so hopefully they'll withstand the crush of tweets once the first polls close at 7pm ET tonight.
If you're interested in joining in on the fun, I'll be tweeting from NPR headquarters into the wee hours of the morning, monitoring the results with the rest of the NPR.org Super Tuesday team. I'll be posting official precinct results, as well as whenever NPR makes the call for a particular primary using nprnewsblog, while I'll use my acarvin Twitter account for more general observances. I've set also up a Twitter account called SuperTweetday. All Twitter users are invited to reply @SuperTweetday to share stories about what's happening locally in their voting precinct at the polling stations, as well as observations on the results. These posts will then be automatically to the SuperTweetday account, so if you follow it, you'll receive everyone else's comments.
Meanwhile, you should check out Twitter accounts Supertuesday, which is already covering election activities now that the polls are open, and IVoted, which invites people to tweet their votes @IVoted to share them with other users.
It's gonna be a fun night. Hold on to your hats, and keep your fingers crossed that the system doesn't come crashing down.... -andy
Tags: election 2008 | politics | primaries | Super Tuesday | SuperTweetday | twitter | voting
Posted by acarvin at February 5, 2008 9:46 AM
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