The Palin Peak
Governor Palin's speech at the Republican National Convention last night corresponded with a dramatic increase of tweets per second. This graph represents hourly update activity on Twitter over two days this week. 
Like hurricane Gustav on Monday, and Google's new browser launch on Tuesday, Palin's official nomination acceptance on Wednesday is another example of Twitter being used in real-time during a massively shared event. We continue to see increased activity during storms, earthquakes, breaking news, and more but Politics in particular continues to drive updates, discussion, interaction, and other sustained activity on Twitter.
C—SPAN has built an interesting Twitter integration and Leslie Bradshaw often shares updates on air. CNN also makes use of Twitter and Rick Sanchez has also been broadcasting updates on television as well. The National Press Club recently held a Twitter training session for journalists in advance of convention reporting and there are over 30 members of congress using Twitter. US politics in 2008 is definitely a-Twitter and that's good for us.
This election year will continue to generate activity on Twitter. Search is a good way to follow Political action as we head to the debates and the election in November. API projects like Politweets are another interesting way to take the nation's pulse. We're on the lookout for more like this and we're interested in facilitating much of this discourse from a features standpoint when it makes sense. Interesting stuff!
Like hurricane Gustav on Monday, and Google's new browser launch on Tuesday, Palin's official nomination acceptance on Wednesday is another example of Twitter being used in real-time during a massively shared event. We continue to see increased activity during storms, earthquakes, breaking news, and more but Politics in particular continues to drive updates, discussion, interaction, and other sustained activity on Twitter.C—SPAN has built an interesting Twitter integration and Leslie Bradshaw often shares updates on air. CNN also makes use of Twitter and Rick Sanchez has also been broadcasting updates on television as well. The National Press Club recently held a Twitter training session for journalists in advance of convention reporting and there are over 30 members of congress using Twitter. US politics in 2008 is definitely a-Twitter and that's good for us.
This election year will continue to generate activity on Twitter. Search is a good way to follow Political action as we head to the debates and the election in November. API projects like Politweets are another interesting way to take the nation's pulse. We're on the lookout for more like this and we're interested in facilitating much of this discourse from a features standpoint when it makes sense. Interesting stuff!
Biz & Ev -- Thanks so much for linking to the C-SPAN Twitter efforts for the DNC and RNC. When we were first putting the project together, I suggested to a few other Twitter community members to use #DNC08 & #RNC08 and it caught on like wildfire.
@jessesaves & @skeevis from JESS3 built the site and have a great archive page that works with your API to do a full "Leader Board" tally. There are 14,401 posts from 1173 different accounts on Twitter have posted using the #RNC08 tag. As for the DNC side (from last week and still continuing): 12,761 posts from 1150 different accounts on Twitter have posted using the #DNC08 tag.
Such an incredible platform, thanks be to you both and the entire Twitter team.
Also: @Marchdoe & team's work with Politweets was most inspirational as well.
Final thought: C-SPAN's motto goes something like this: "Providing access to the political process."
They see the Twitter platform and the Twitter community as conduits to actualize this in new ways. They even maintain an account: www.twitter.com/CSPAN
Thanks again guys :)
Leslie
This really is a unique year for Presidential politics. The Democratic Presidential nominee, Barak Obama, uses quotes from the movie, The American President, in his acceptance speech and the background of Republican Vice Presidential nominee, Sarah Palin, is surprisingly close to the President on Battlestar Galactica. Hollywood really has taken over.
I agree. Hollywood has taken over a little too much. I don't like some of the excessive publicity that's been going around!
yay for the tweets though!
Biz - You might be interested in another project I've put together called RateMyTalk. It's still in very early alpha, but I used it successfully at Gnomedex and now DjangoCon (https://ratemytalk.com/cons/DjangoCon) to use Twitter (via @talkr) to provide speaker feedback at conferences.
Lots more to add, but definitely ties in to the same type of ability to retrieve the immediate feelings of those on Twitter.
have you seen this hillarious palen impersonator? it is great.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEW12XLUM7A
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