Weekly Media News Story: 5

Obama Wins Election on Twitter

• Research shows that if the election was done on Twitter, Obama would've comfortably won the election and be re-elected.
• It is done based on the mentions made on Twitter.

Opinion:

• I believe this research shows how powerful social media has become over the years, especially Twitter. This is the first Twitter US election and I believe it plays a huge role on the successful president because people all around America and the world can share their views on Twitter.   

This chart shows the states which would've voted for Obama or Romney:

By clicking on each state you can see the % of mentions.