From the article: "2012
could well be the Twitter Election. By December, election retweets and hashtags
will inevitably feature in the postscript to this election, as tweets are by
nature terse and very quotable – easy fodder for journalists. The volume of
tweets surged from the moment Romney questioned federal funding to PBS and Big
Bird. Many of those with Twitter accounts were raised on Sesame Street. This
could be the first election where social media rather than advertising made the
difference. ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox are all using the volume of blog and tweet
activity as a real time barometer of this too-close-to-call campaign." Read more
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