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If They Debate, Here's Where to Tweet All About It
The Caucus — ... , the service that lets techno-hipsters broadcast their thoughts in 140-character bursts, is setting up a special politics page to make it easy to tune into the chatter. At midnight Thursday, the company is launching 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 ...

Twitter launches election site
The Moderate Voice — At midnight last night Twitter launched a new sub-site called Election2008.VentureBeat: [The new site] will feature an interface that regular Twitter users will instantly recognize. There will be one major difference however. Gone is the famously outdated question “What are you doing?” (Twitter was initially just about people saying what they were doing), it has been replaced with “What do you think?” The idea of course, is to get people’s opinions on politics topics, the candidates and larger issues like the economy. ...

Daily Digest: It's Debate Night and We're All Invited! Kinda.
techPresident — ... What Twitter Says About Election '08: So, what on the political landscape has Twitterers tweet-tweet-tweeting away? Well, as of this morning, it's Sarah Palin's interview with Katie Couric and, relatedly, ...

McCain Drinking Game
The Great Plains Observer — Now that John McCain is done saving us from financial ruin and has decided to restart his campaign in time for tonight’s debate, the users of Twitter have come up with a neat little drinking game to play while watching McCain and Barack Obama duke it out. The game tagged #McCainshot is a drinking game in which the participants take a drink each time Senator McCain says “friends” during the debate. While I am sure folks that play the game will get their fill of their favorite beverage, I hear that those that devised the game originally wanted to use “POW” ...

From HeckleBot to Twitterverse: Net-Centric Democracy Goes Global Tonight
techPresident — ... Now, we're on the verge of a national (or international) test of what is in effect, the Twitter Hecklebot. The machine is already up and running over at Election.Twitter.com (if you want the full blast of the fire hose), or, if you're a Twitter user already, you've got a more selective stream to track of friends or people you find interesting to follow. Most of us will be online tonight, and whatever is going on in the presidential debate between Obama and McCain will rapidly ricochet through the Twitterverse as we watch together. (You can already see this taking shape in ...

John McCain Joins Twitter, But Not Really
techPresident — ... @Daltonsbriefs alerted me that the McCain campaign had officially jumped in to Twitter with @JohnMcCain. I emailed the campaign but have yet to hear an official response. However, McCain supporter AliAkbar says it's official so I decided to dig further. Curious about the timing of the official launch of @JohnMcCain, I followed up with Biz Stone, a Twitter co-founder, and asked if they had launched the account to help balance their Twitter Election Hub. Biz's response to my hunch: "That's correct—we got in touch ...

Presidential Transition 2.0: How to Use New Social Media
techPresident — ... Governing is very different from campaigning; the president must look out for the needs of the entire nation. Social software can help with this too. Microblog websites – for example, Twitter's Election page – offer real-time information on public discussions people are having on the Internet. ...

Watching the Twitter Election Scroll
The Caucus — As the world’s conversation focuses on the U.S. elections, a constant stream of comments and observations is flooding between voters, news organizations, and the campaigns themselves. One unscientific but ground-floor way to glimpse this discussion in real-time is the Election 2008 page on Twitter, the micro-blogging service that allows users to send 140-character updates by text message, e-mail or Web posting about what they are doing now. The page is a constantly moving scroll that consists of election-related messages that the site’s 3.2 million users send to each other. ...