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How did you experience the election and what was your major source of news?

Social Netwroking Sites (Facebook, twitter, Flickr etc)

Streaming video online, On-demand video

Mobile Websites, text and SMS alerts

E-mail and Phone calls

Newspapers

Television

Online News (TV sites, newspaper sites)

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Note: This poll is not scientific and reflects the opinions of only those Internet users who have chosen to participate. The results cannot be assumed to represent public opinion.

Poll Opened: November 5, 2008

Poll Closes: December 31, 2008

Related Story: Election News Kept Online Community Buzzing

Compared to a typical Tuesday, multi-media services saw huge jumps in traffic on Election Day.
Yahoo.com
165 percent jump in traffic to Yahoo! News
80 percent increase in total traffic
Facebook.com
20 percent jump in traffic.
5.44 million people clicked the “I voted” button on Facebook to tell their friends they voted.
2 million election-related “virtual gifts” given.
CNN.com
30 million unique visitors, highest in site history, 282 million page views.
5.3 million live streams, triple the previous record, and 6.8 million on-demand video streams.
Verizon Wireless
2.5 million more voice minutes in Tampa Bay and 22.5 percent more text messages in Tampa Bay. (West Palm Beach, site of election troubles) was up more than 25 percent.
9 percent jump in data connections, such as sending photos via phone.
Total text messages between carriers
18.7 percent up, according to cellular firm Syniverse, peaking at 11 p.m. when TV networks called election for Obama. Normally, texting traffic falls 30 percent at 11 p.m.
Mood
Roughly 250 percent more occurrences of the word “hopeful” in personal blogs tracked by the Intelligent Systems Lab at the University of Amsterdam. The word “scared” was relatively unchanged. To see other words, see moodviews.com/Moodgrapher.
News Site Traffic
8.6 million total visitors per minute on news coverage sites, tracked by Akamai Technologies.
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Reporter Richard Mullins can be reached at (813) 259-7919.

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