Twittering the Debate: Amateur Pundits Plan to Sound Off - America’s Election HQ

Now that Barack Obama and John McCain are definitely and unequivocally going to debate on Friday night, a popular micro-blogging site is making it easy for just about anyone to be an instant political pundit.

Let the twittering begin.

Twitter, the online communication network that lets users post short messages of up to 140 characters called “tweets,” has launched a political section to streamline its coverage.

Called election.twitter.com, the company has launched a specialized section that aggregates election-related topics in a continually updating feed.

Twittering the Debate: Amateur Pundits Plan to Sound Off - America’s Election HQ


I guess that 15 minutes of fame are now measured in seconds now and are accumulative.  I use Twitter but I find this kind of weird.  Especially because the system is overloaded and this can only attract new users who try to add to their total to get their 15 min. of fame.

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