This graph, courtesy of the folks at Twitter, charts the tweets-per-minute (TPM) following the Ann Romney/Hilary Rosen flap, and is just one example of how this year’s election is approaching a rapid, almost steroid-fueled pace.
“The shift from a 24-hour news cycle to a 140-character one has dramatically reshaped the rapid response game,” says Adam Sharp, Twitter’s Senior Manager of Government, News and Social Innovation. “The whole action-reaction-response cycle is compressed to mere minutes, and Twitter users have a front row seat to a back-and-forth that used to be witnessed only by the ‘boys on the bus.'”
See a larger version here.
