Meta-twitter: The Twittering of the Presidential Debate

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IMAGE CREDIT: TWITTER

Contrary to my previous assumptions, twittering is actually a useful activity. (No, not here. Also, not here.) The U.S. presidential debate last Friday was twittered by Slate and countless other online entities, large and small.

Twitter made a graph of the frequencies of certain words in outgoing 'tweets.' The most intensively tweeted words were tax, Iraq and Korean, if I understand the chart correctly. That means these particular debate moments incited the greatest volume of twittering.

I imagine the campaign directors are already poring through the twitter archives for veins to mine for talking points. Tweeting points. The voices in my head are starting to develop a speech impediment.

(via Boingboing, where the comments will make you laugh)

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