Google & Twitter Join Forces To Cover Super Tuesday

by Scott Beale on February 5, 2008 · 4 comments

Google Maps

Google and Twitter have joined forces to provide coverage of the Super Tuesday primary elections. When people post updates to Twitter about voting they will show up on the Google Super Tuesday Map.

Google has also launched a new Elections section of Google News as well as a election results gadget that tracks the progress of the candidates in all 24 states.

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1 Elsie Samson February 6, 2008 at 4:22 am

Thanks for posting on this Scott! (I might have met you at the Laughing Squid party at Citizen Space in Dec actually, haha).

By any chance, do you know how to send in a Twitter update so that it’ll show on the map? I looked everywhere on the map and can’t figure it out (I’ve also never used Twittervision but looked at that site and still don’t know how it would work for this Super Tues map).

Appreciate any sharing of knowledge! Thanks! :)

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2 Eric Gonzalez February 7, 2008 at 2:06 am

I think I’ve seen that fellow on the map before.. somewhere..

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