By Billy Hallowell
DON’T forget to check out Dick Morris’ commentary — extremely interesting. But this post is about a very cool collaboration that’s been forged (and not about specific commentators). A few days ago, I wrote about Current/Twitter’s new electoral relationship. Their very cool “Hack the Debates” initiative kicked off last night and VoterWatch was there to participate. VoterWatch Twitted comments about the presidential debate on behalf of the Bob Barr for President Team, CovertRadio and other Presidential Debates Project partners. If you aren’t familiar with Twitter, be sure to check it out.
While Current didn’t sign on to annotate the debates using our player, we joined forces with them to disseminate information about their project as well as a link to their recap of what went down during last night’s debate. Check out what happens when television and Twitter mix.
Tags: blogging the debates, current, McCain, obama, presidential debate, twitter
September 27th, 2008
Here at VoterWatch, we are excited to take note of Current and Twitter’s unique partnership. While you’re definitely going to want to stay tuned to BloggingTheDebates.com in the days following each debate for expert commentary from Dick Morris, Cynthia McKinney and many others (presented in the VoterWatch media player), you might also want to take part in what Current and Twitter are planning during each debate. As per Current’s site:
Current & Twitter have teamed up for the very first time to integrate real-time Twitter messages (aka “tweets”) over major portions of a live television broadcast.
Hack the debate by adding your Twitter posts to our live broadcast of the 2008 Presidential Debates.
We will broadcast as many of your debate tweets as possible right over Obama & McCain, in real time, on our live broadcast.
Check out the details…also, we’ve partnered with Current to air a recap of the Current/Twitter debate footage (complete with Tweets) following each debate! Stay tuned for more on this.
Tags: blogging the debates, current, McCain, obama, twitter
September 25th, 2008
