What Twitter Told Me About Tonight’s Debate

For the whole time I watched there were no debate oriented tweets in this area!

I watched most of the senatorial debate between Linda McMahon and Dick Blumenthal. Because I work in the studio part of the time I had to have the volume turned down. I opened up two Twitter windows to help keep up and was surprised at what I saw.

In one window I had my standard ‘every tweet within 15 miles of the TV station’ search.&#185 In the other I filtered for a few words that would surely bring debate comments.

Both columns scrolled rapidly as the debate wore on, but only the ‘filtered word search’ window had debate action. For the whole time I watched there were no debate oriented tweets in this area!

I am surprised… maybe a little disappointed too.

&#185 – Not everyone lets Twitter know where they are so this isn’t the total view of every tweet near New Haven. It’s the best I could do with what’s available.

2 thoughts on “What Twitter Told Me About Tonight’s Debate”

  1. Well, maybe it’s because no one locally much cares about the candidates words. I’ve seen Blumenthal in action, and I know by those actions he is a lying, thieving, cheating, publicity whore. I’m not at all sure I like Ms. McMahon for a senatorial position, but I am completely convinced that Blumenthal is a huge mistake.

    I also know for certain that I am eager to hear the last political advertisement for the season. It can’t come soon enough.

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