Friday, November 6, 2015

The Twitter Elections

This past week marked the 1 year mark to the next presidential elections. Exactly one year from now, the greatest country on the planet will have a new leader. This next 365 some odd days will fly by, especially for the potential candidates.

With everything happening so quickly in the election process, Twitter is in full swing. The thousands of different media outlets are keeping everyone up to date on the debates, latest polls, and election campaigns. For people like me who work a good bit of weekday evenings, it is hard to keep up with debates. It is, however, easy to follow along with what is being said on social media. CNN might tweet out a quote that Trump said, or a video clip of Hilary Clinton talking about an important subject. I can now be "in the loop" so to speak, on what is going on during key election events.

This was not possible, 10, 15, 20 years ago. Twitter was not around to be able to follow along when you cannot be glued to the television on debate nights. This has revolutionized how Americans follow along. Way back when, if someone missed a debate, they might catch the highlights the next day during the news broadcast, or driving to work  and hearing it on the radio. Or even reading the newspaper and seeing others interpretations of the debates. This is not the case anymore. We live in a right now society and everything is so fast pace.


Social media has evolved so much over the years and has played a major role in keeping people up to date on current events, and elections as well.