Twitter Rolls Out Hot Topics Election200826 Sep
Tonight for the first time I saw a bar appear at the top of my Twitter page called “Hot Political Topics Election2008″. The bar had the following links; Kati Couric, GOP, Alaska, Bush, R’s, коли под наемCNN, Dems, Russia, CBS, Hillary.
The links go to Twitter’s Election2008 sub-domain where you will basically find Summize/Twitter Search tweet results appearing for the election term of your choice. It’s packaged in a smooth red, white and blue U.S. election theme.
Twiter has this statement posted on the page:
What’s this?
We’re filtering hundreds of Twitter updates per minute to create a new source for gathering public opinion about the presidential election and a new way for you to share your thoughts.
With Election2008 Twitter is packaging it’s content in such a way that will draw attention from folks outside of the typical Twitterer. For the Twitter regulars this is old hat stuff we are used to viewing through what what was Summize and is now Twitter Search. But overall I think it will be a home run for Twitter because it will get main stream media attention. Get ready for another jump in Twitter use. Will we be seeing the whale being carried off to never never land again even more?
This also raises more questions.
- What other topics is Twitter going to package up?
- Are they going to create a whole news site like page full of all the hot topics?
- When will the actual search box and results be integrated into your primary Twitter page?
- What’s the next feature coming around the corner?
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A couple things I missed mentioning is that there is a tweet box for you to chime in with your own tweet on the subject you are viewing. The tweets are also continually updated on the screen which is different than the Summize/Twitter Search which just queues a number up of updated tweets waiting for you to refresh the page. This feature should find itself on the regular Twitter Search page soon I would think.
I was viewing the Washington topic and made a couple tweets with “Washington” in them, they appeared immediately. I then made a tweet without “Washington” in it but it did contain “Election 2008″. To my surprise this tweet also appeared in the Washington topic. After this I tried tweeting a couple more but my session was paused some how and the most recent tweets were no longer visible.
Will have to see how this one plays out….
If you make off topic tweets your tweet will appear for you but not for others viewing that topic.
I miss this feature now that the elections are over. I am hoping Twitter finds a way to continue some kind of hot topics featured, whether themed (politics) or general.