This week, hundreds of millions of people in India and around the world get set to celebrate Diwali. Popularly known as the “Festival of Lights,” Diwali marks the triumph of good over evil and is celebrated by the lighting of lamps, bursting of firecrackers, and exchanging of sweets.
One hundred million votes and 31 million Tweets later, Election Day 2012 has come to a close. As the results of the election were called by news organizations, the conversation about the election on Twitter surged, hitting a peak of 327,452 Tweets per minute (TPM). Before President Obama took the stage to address the nation, he shared a special update on Twitter. As thousands of supporters cheered in Chicago, more than 455,000 (and counting) retweeted his celebratory message:
Rookie RB @DougMartin22 earned himself the most mentions on Twitter in Week 9, and made many fantasy owners very happy. His team’s match-up with the @Raiders resulted in a third place ranking for most tweeted-about games, and here are the other top match-ups from the weekend:
Today is the final day to make your voice heard by voting on national, state, and local ballots. To help you get out to vote, our @gov team compiled a list of Twitter accounts for each state’s Secretary of State (the office that oversees elections) as well as other relevant accounts offering voter information.
6 Nov. - #Election2012 Event Page
We’ve created a special #Election2012 event page that went live this morning. It highlights Tweets from candidates and their staffers, media and other key players so you can hear directly from those close to the action. This page is your one stop shop for news as it develops all day and night.
Tonight on ABC (8pm ET/ 7pm CT/5pm PT), country music’s brightest stars will shine at the 46th Annual Country Music (CMA) awards. And you don’t have to be in Nashville to have a front row experience: Twitter will help you keep up with your favorite stars on-and off-camera.
Throughout the 2012 election season, the biggest topics and emerging trends have played out on Twitter, offering an extensive dataset for our Analytics team to explore. Prominent issues in this year’s campaign range from Pell Grants for students to Medicare for the elderly, from coal production to clean energy. Of course, the salience of these issues varies greatly by state. A great deal of media and campaign attention focuses on statewide polling, so we’ve been particularly interested in how users engage with political content on a statewide level.