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The President now pinning on Pinterest
Hello, Pinterest? The President is calling. Taking inspiration from the legions of web denizens (and potential voters) already hip to the pinning craze, U.S. President Barack Obama is now sharing his...
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Hootsuite debuts a big, shiny, election-tracking tool for Twitter, Facebook
The U.S. presidential election is coming up on Tuesday, and Hootsuite has just unveiled a customized command center to track social media sentiment around the two main candidates. “The command center...
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Watch VentureBeat’s take on the election tonight on KRON
Energy is high today in the VentureBeat newsroom as we brace ourselves for the next-to-last gasps of the election news cycle. We’ll be covering web-related election news here on VentureBeat throughout...
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Twitter v. Facebook by the numbers: which network won election night?
Last night, I stood in the middle of a buzzing TV newsroom. Producers scrambled, directors’ voices squawked into anchors’ earpieces, and pandemonium ensued as the so-called “razor-thin” margin...
View ArticleObama v. Romney in the social media ring: not even close (infographic)
Republicans better get down on their knees and pray that Americans never vote via Facebook or Twitter. If the presidential election that’s due to take place on November 6 was settled on social media,...
View ArticleWant real foresight? Stop polling, start predicting
GUEST: Now that the 2012 presidential race is on the books, let’s not indulge hindsight — “Oh, we all saw that coming” — and instead take a look at where we were just 48 hours ago. Polls depicted...
View ArticleFacebook heat map visualizes bursts of voting activity around the country
It’s Election Day in America and citizens everywhere are proudly telling their friends, and anyone online who will listen, that they voted. In an attempt to measure the action and encourage more people...
View ArticleHow Washington went social in 2012: the top 10 moments in politics and...
We’ve been hearing since 2008 that the Internet in general and social media in particular was going to play a huge role in political elections. In 2012, that promise finally came to fruition. We saw...
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