Last night, just was we all did during the presidential debates, we stalked the election via Twitter. The\u00a0Massachusetts\u00a0senate seat election in particular was highly followed race because of what was on the line. If Elizabeth Warren was elected, then she would be the first women elected into the Senate in the state of MA, ever. She was indeed elected, and the history of MA senate race was changed forever.<\/p>\n
Back to Twitter though, twitter was exploding on\u00a0election\u00a0day. Even though there are many other reliable sources via the\u00a0internet\u00a0such as the updates by CNN or NBC, twitter is a different kind of outlet \u00a0that is more\u00a0accessible\u00a0to a general public,\u00a0especially\u00a0young college voters. Many college students (such as myself) do not have televisions in their dorm rooms, and the alternative to tracking the election, other than the TV, is the internet. As I walked in the front entrance of LaFortune , I was hit by a buzz of \u00a0political\u00a0college students assembling\u00a0together,\u00a0accompanied\u00a0by pizza boxes and star bucks cups, \u00a0to watch the presidential election. I also noticed twitter up on a lot of\u00a0different\u00a0computers. Now even though many of the students were watching a projected screen of the NBC coverage of the election as well, they were also referencing twitter. I myself, as I proceeded to the basement to study in quiet, pulled up my twitter newsfeed and kept it minmized in the bottom of the screen, accessible for whenever I wanted to have a reliable update of the election. As I watched the coverage in the state of MA, news teams and media figures alike were also on twitter.<\/p>\n
WCVB Boston tweeted many live updates from their Live Wire Blog. This blog had every single new election update, retweets from politico, CNN, and NBC as well as some of their own tweets and pictures such as Romney and his family voting in Belmont, MA. WBZ a Fox\u00a0affiliate\u00a0in the\u00a0Boston\u00a0area was also on twitter, tweeting live updates for the Senate Race in Springfield, tweets such as “Warren crowd now chanting her name. Waiting for her to speak.” and updates on the\u00a0legalization\u00a0of medical marijuana in the state of MA. Again, even though twitter is viewed by many journalists as a colloquial and un-professional type of news source, I got most of my election information from twitter, as I assume many others did. I believe that in general, we are looking at the future of election day, and personally I do not see it as\u00a0completely\u00a0dim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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