Tuesday’s U.S. presidential election was arguably the most important the world has witnessed in decades and people from around the globe were eager for up-to-the-minute information. According to reports more than half of the 110,000 million television households in the U.S. were glued to coverage of the election from 8pm until midnight. Twitter, the fastest growing micro-blogging service with more than three million subscribers, reported its busiest day with information updates doubling in number compared to regular traffic and CNN.com reported five times its normal website traffic.
Channel 2 News, Israel’s leading broadcast television network, stayed connected to the U.S. elections until the early morning hours by broadcasting live ooVoo video conversations with more than 20 correspondents stationed throughout Israel and the U.S. A wide range of differing perspectives of the election results were offered by contributors that included Dana Rapoport, a writer for Channel 2 News stationed in New York, Eileen Smith the editor of Texas Monthly in her publication’s home state of Texas, Edmundo Rocha an activist, freelance writer and founder and editor of The Sanctuary and Shireen Mitchell is founder and Executive Director of Digital Sisters in Washington D.C., amongst many others. Highlights of the broadcast can be viewed here. To read more about the correspondents, many of whom participated in the MyooVooDay Political event earlier this year, please visit www.MyooVooDay.com/political.
The internet, social media and technology played a vital role in changing the landscape of how political campaigns are communicated and information is shared. On Tuesday millions of individuals tuned into broadcast television and radio news hungry for breaking news of the U.S. president elect, and many more logged onto to websites, discussion forums and social networks to around the world to sharing their opinions with text chat, images and videos around the world. According to BusinessWeek's article 4.9 million Facebook users indicated that they had voted.
How did ooVoo users share their politcal views leading up to, on and after this historic election? Share your stories or conversation recordings with us and we may include some of them in an election update.
Philip Robertson
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