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Where to Find Election Coverage

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Nov 04, 2008

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This Tuesday, the eyes of the world will be focused on the U.S. election. Whatever the outcome, history will be made. There are a number of ways you can watch coverage of and participate in the election. First and foremost, you can vote and watch coverage on TV. Did you know that there are also options for following along on microblogging platforms?

socialmedian

This aggregation platform will be pulling in all kinds of media from Tweets to blog posts to Flickr photos. They’ll widgetize all the updates they find and feature them on websites such as washingtonpost.com, guardian.co.uk, and mediadeluge.com.

If you’re more interested in watching instead of participating, you can also view the entire socialmedian feed or filter it out by candidate or view a feed for the poll information. In Digg-like fashion, they support both popular news and the up-and-coming news.

Twitter

This component has been well-known and live for a while now, but Twitter has their own election center. The main feature of the center include a scrolling view of election-related tweets.

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