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Twitter Swamped on Election Day?

In facebook, internet on November 4, 2008 by BostonTweet Tagged: , ,

I would love to see the statistics for the number of Tweets and Facebook uploads for this day alone. Since a couple of my mobile uploads never went through I’m guessing both applications are getting swamped with updates.  However, after resubmitting they successfully went through – no downtime for Twitter!. Looks like that new funding is being well spent.

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2 Responses to “Twitter Swamped on Election Day?”

  1. ZG November 4, 2008 at 3:35 pm | Reply

    One cool way to sort through everything coming through twitter today is Tropicana’s Freshly Squeezed Election Tweets, a twitter visualization:

    http://anorangeamerica.com/

    I’ve been working on the site with Tropicana, and we just launched it this morning. It aggregates tweets real-time and creates a “bubble” proportional to each term’s volume (analogous to a word cloud). It then draws connections between terms mentioned together. It’s addicting to play around with and watch it update!

  2. Record Traffic on Election Day « Internet | Business | Ideas November 5, 2008 at 11:08 am | Reply

    [...] It’s my guess that almost any site dealing with news or major communications saw record traffic yesterday – Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and the thousands that feed of them all likely set record traffic days. It’s also good to note that none of them had any substantial downtime. [...]

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