Acceptance Speeches: The Tweets Are In!

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Friday, 5 September 2008

Acceptance Speeches: The Tweets Are In!

MG Siegler over at VentureBeat saw our post yesterday about Twitter activity surrounding Governor Palin’s acceptance speech and asked if we could share more along those lines. Here is a graph showing Twitter mentions of each presidential and vice presidential candidate during their acceptance speeches at the DNC and RNC. McCain seems to be topping the chart but that’s not necessarily a good thing—tweets can be both positive and negative.