How Are Political Magazines Using Twitter To Talk About The Election?

The Twittersphere is abuzz with talk of the fast-approaching 2012 Presidential Election. With the debates behind us and the candidates on the last legs of their campaign trails, one researcher wanted to know how political magazines were capitalizing on all of the politically-charged tweeting in the final stretch of the elections.

According to an article on PBS.org, Susan Currie Sivek, assistant professor in the Department of Mass Communication at Linfield College, has been collecting Twitter data related to 17 well-known US political magazines since October 1st.

In just under a month, these 17 magazines have tweeted or been tweeted about over 216,000, and they have amassed about 700,000 followers combined.

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