It ain’t called the Twitter campaign for nothing. If
anything can be concluded about last night’s debate, it’s that this election is
all about social media. As The Globe and Mail reports, #db8-tagged tweets made
up 1 per cent of worldwide Twitter traffic around 8 p.m. EST. “Iggy”
trended worldwide. According to one digital based strategist, debate-related
tweets tallied 38,000 by 11 p.m. EST. That’s about half of Tuesday’s total
election-related traffic on Twitter. Add all the liveblogs and Facebook updates
and you start to understand why reporting, and following, the debate Tuesday
felt a little bit like running a marathon. J-Source wants to know how you
covered (and followed) the debate using social media. Any prize tweets? Big
challenges? Send them to: rwashburn@loyalistc.on.ca We’ll provide a coast-to-coast round-up of how journos
handled the first Canadian debate to go viral.