It’s not just you: Links on Twitter are not working
It appears to be an issue with t.co, which wraps all links on Twitter.
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Twitter memories
Twitter was just down for a few short minutes, and I got the fail whale for the first time in years. (First time at least in a non-ironic context, like a tattoo (yes) (not mine), or as art in a story about Twitter’s uptime.)
Which got me thinking back to the early days of Twitter. Remember when:
- The question was: “What are you doing?”
- The default icon was a brown googly-eyed face, not an egg
- Hashtags weren’t in-line links
What else?
Our Hangout participants today had the chance to create one of our new USA TODAY logos, and two of them made versions based off of last night’s debate.
The first is from Ruben and cleverly melds “Angry Birds” and Big Bird, and the second is from Sarah, jumping off the Kitchenaid Twitter bumble.
(You can watch the Hangout with our publisher, Larry Kramer, here.)
The GOP convention this week has really given Romney a boost in our Twitter Election Meter (which measures sentiment, tricky as that can be). So that’s interesting. But what may be more interesting is that it didn’t have as great of an effect in the 12 swing states we’re tracking.
Check it out for yourself: USA TODAY/Twitter Election Meter
Don’t want to seem so obsessed, so wait for an hour, then retweet.
We’re rolling out a new interactive we’re pretty excited about: You can track the Twitter ratings of the presidential candidates with our new USA TODAY/Twitter Election Meter. You’re also able to scroll through the timeline to see how they’ve fared leading up to the election, and see related tweets.
Check it out here: http://usat.ly/NJhj4C
File under: Your strategy is showing.
