Debate Winners: the Twitterverse; Big Bird
The October 3 debate told two stories: that of a record-setting number of tweets and a certain large yellow bird. Storify compiled for @iSchoolSU @ElectionClass #ElectionClass #debates.
- The Twitter Government and Politics team (@gov) sent out real-time updates of the tremendous Twitter volume amassed during the October 3 debate.
The start of this debate has already topped the RNC and @MichelleObama's DNC speech in terms of Tweets per minute. #debates
First of the #debates generated 10.3 million Tweets in 90 minutes — a political-event record. Chart of peaks: http://pic.twitter.com/OdXVF1Gb- One down, three #debates to go (one of them w/ the veeps). Our roundup of tonight in Denver: blog.twitter.com/2012/10/dispat…
Fact-checking Tweets saw a great number of of retweets during last night's debate blog.twitter.com/2012/10/dispat… #debates- Check out the full blog post, "Dispatch from the Denver debate".
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Twitter Blog: Dispatch from the Denver debateThe topic of tonight's presidential debate was domestic policy, and citizens all over came to Twitter to share their comments and follow ...- If you appreciate the beauty of a good word cloud, take a look at this one representing 250,000 randomly-selected tweets, compiled by Zach Green of 140elect.com (@140elect) ...
Word cloud of 250,000 randomly selected tweets from tonight's debate: http://pic.twitter.com/0T99LowJ- Big thing I notice from the word cloud of tweets is the absence of any single, major takeaway from the night http://pic.twitter.com/0T99LowJ
- ... or, if you're more of an infographic fan, check out these results of top Google searches during the debate.
Top Google searches associated with each candidate during the #debates last night: bit.ly/Wpff2P #ElectionClass- What? "Mitt Big Bird," you ask? Well, if you insist...
- In an exchange about the economy, candidate Mitt Romney stated, "I'm sorry Jim. I'm gonna stop the subsidy to PBS. I'm gonna stop other things. I like PBS. I love Big Bird. I actually like you too. But I'm not gonna - I'm not gonna keep on spending money on things to borrow money from China to pay for us."
- Watch for yourself:
- The Twitter reaction was fast and furious, demonstrating that nobody puts Big Bird in a corner.
Romney, "I love big bird". He sure does... he sure does. #electionclass #debates http://pic.twitter.com/aO4NqCVw- Romney discusses cutting PBS funding, then apologizes to host Jim Lehrer… who works for PBS. twitpic.com/b0svqo
- ABC News, "Big Bird Memes Go Viral":
