Obama's Twitter Bid on Election Eve

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Who wins tomorrow seems to be anyone’s guess, as predictions are all over the electoral map. Advocates for 44’s re-election appear to have a firm grip on Twitter ads on Monday, however, the day before Election Day.

Priorities USA Action, a Barack Obama-supporting political action committee, has blanketed Twitter with ad buys, winning the Promoted Tweet bids for search/hashtag terms for Election, Election2012, Obama, Romney, Biden, Ryan, Romney/Ryan and Obama/Biden. The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) was also bidding on the terms and running pro-Obama ads.

Twitter's bidding system works similarly to Google Adwords, letting marketers attach ads to keywords on the site.

For much of Monday afternoon, Election2012 was a nationally trending hashtag. Those who clicked on the hashtag saw the following pro-Obama ad from Priorities USA:

If Mitt Romney wins, the middle class loses. bit.ly/We'

— PrioritiesUSA Action (@Priorities2012) November 5, 2012

And the president’s campaign purchased Monday’s Promoted Trend, which costs $120,000 per day. The copy mirrors the Democrat’s pithy re-election slogan: “Forward.” (Ad appears below.)

His challenger, Republican Mitt Romney, became the first presidential candidate to run a Promoted Trend ad during the GOP’s convention in Tampa, Fla., in late August. Since then, the ad buy has become a regular part of each camp’s digital strategy.

The choice millions of voters will make couldn't be bigger. Make your voice heard & confirm where you vote: OFA.BO/k3QnyV #Forward

— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) November 5, 2012