Politics

It’s a student project, but Twipolitico has the potential to add some serious insight into the 2012 race.

The site tracks the real-time popularity of Barack Obama and Mitt Romney on Twitter, to see who’s winning the social media sentiment race.
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Launch a social media campaign that will build your brand and deliver results in our online Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting June 7. Speakers include Abigail Cusick (Bravo Digital), Gregory Galant (Sawhorse Media), Alex Leo (Thomson Reuters Digital), Jim Tobin (Ignite Social Media), and many more. Read the reviews.

Probably the silliest thing an unwed mom could do is express strong opinions about the sanctity of marriage and sit in judgement of those who do not share this world view.

Even sillier? Insisting, when you’re a single teen mom, that children raised in traditional “mom and dad” families are better off than those raised by gay parents.

Bristol Palin did both of these things in her blog post earlier today, while slamming President Obama for supporting gay marriage – and the Twitterverse went bananas.
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Obama went on national TV on Wednesday to publicly show his support for gay marriage. This made him the first sitting president to do so, and caused quite the stir among both mainstream and new media types.

Twitter quickly became a sounding board for any and all opinions about gay marriage and the president himself, as people took to their favorite 140-character medium to share their thoughts on the momentous declaration.
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This morning we took a look at how social media is playing a significant role in the 2012 U.S. Presidential Election, but what about over on the other side of the pond?

London is currently in the midst of deciding on its next mayor, with the election due to take place tomorrow, May 3. Current mayor and Conservative candidate Boris Johnson is the favourite to win, but he faces serious competition from Labour nominee Ken Livingstone.

Will social media influence the outcome in London, too?

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Did you know that the 2012 Presidential Election will be the most expensive in U.S. history?

Collectively, President Obama and the Republican candidates have raised hundreds of millions of dollars for their campaigns. The online advertising spend for this election has increased seven fold since 2008, with the bulk going into display advertising, email and paid search.

But it may be the candidates’ use of a relatively inexpensive medium – social media – that pushes them towards victory in November.

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Did you hear about the festival of insults directed at Saudi’s King on Twitter? Well, even if you can’t read Arabic (Twitter will translate as best it can) – check THIS out.

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Are you planning to pay close attention to tonight’s East Coast GOP primary returns? If so, consider adding a little humor to your night by following Comedy Central’s Indecision coverage on Twitter, using the #UnSuperTuesday hashtag.
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The White House’s Chief Technical Officer Todd Park (@Todd_Park) will be participating in a Twitter chat today at 2pm ET, answering questions about how the Obama administration is embracing technology.
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From the Infographic we shared in our post detailing how Congress tweets, you already knew that congressional representatives from the Republican side of the fence were kicking butt on Twitter. Maybe part of that is thanks to the New Media Competition, now in its third year?
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Two topics are dogging Obama on Twitter today and they’re both pretty hilarious . . . from a hilarity-lover’s point of view. As we’ve heard the “Pres” has a solid sense of humor, we’re wondering if he and Michelle aren’t having a little chuckle over the Twitter zaniness today too!

Or maybe it’s one of those “we’ll look back on it and laugh” kind of days.
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