Here I am at work, at Twitter during the 1st Presidential debates, making sure things are running and keeping track of our metrics. Twitter and Current.tv worked together to provide a live election site and placement of user generated tweets on live video of the debate. Our team did wonderfully and Twitter stayed up through the whole event. I also have to commend current.tv – the animations of user tweets were beautiful and random for each comment. It really felt as if people were participating directly in the debate, even if communication was one-way.

Photo courtesy Scott Beale, Laughingsquid.com

Scott’s original blog posting appears right here, on the laughing squid blog.