YouTube, social media play new role in presidential debate
October 3, 2012
The Internet will play an expanded role in tonight’s presidential debate.
YouTube has teamed up with ABC News and Yahoo News to stream the debate.
And as a sign of just how pervasive and crucial social media has become, in some states elected officials are only one degree of “friend” separation from nearly every Facebook account holder in that state, says JD Schlough, a Democratic political strategist, Technology Review reports. And by one analyst firm’s count, Twitter has 140 million U.S. users, more than 30 million of whom joined in 2012 alone.
According to figures from Nielsen, BarackObama.com had 6.4 million unique visitors in August 2012, reaching 2.9 percent of Americans who were online that month. MittRomney.com had 3.3 million unique visitors during that time, about 1.5 percent of the American population online. On mobile, the figures were similar.
Comments (2)
by vaidy bala
The Debate 2012 showed transparency, honesty and practice of Lincoln’s governance principles, clearly from Obama, without doubt. The boxing style of Romney presented an aggressive to capture power by really telling how he is going to govern is simply too futuristic without support of maths. The cool and calm style of Obama is clearly recognizable. All signs like the timely release of Lincoln Movie by Spielberg and better employment stats now foretell Obama’s second term with reasonable accuracy, without emotions storming from contestants!
by Katherine MacLean (old science fiction writer and research fan
To many emotion is the game, like a football match they watch to cheer the side they have already chosen and yell insults at his opponent. The idea of investigating propsed laws and projects and vote by balancing cost and harm against long run benifits to the people of America. It is our duty to think, Goverment by the people is more work for the people than just fun cheering and jeering. .