Elections 2009: media, social media coverage of voting and results

ELECTIONS 2009: These reports from newspapers, radio and TV around the country bring you the latest news on the election results, plus comment from candidates and views from voters. The official Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) site has been up and down, and some mainstream media sites are also taking strain but it's Twitter Search that is Bizcommunity.com's digital medium of choice for keeping on top of things!
By Simone Puterman & Rod Baker
23 Apr 2009
Elections 2009: media, social media coverage of voting and results

Special election sites and features

Twitter


  • Twitter Search: Realtime search results for #saelections hashtag. Twitter Search automatically lets you know when more tweets have been generated since your last refresh, both on the page and in the page title of your browser.
  • SA Elections powered by The Times: @saelections
  • Eyewitness News: Election tweets and photo links from @AkiAnastasiou, Talk Radio 702's trafficologist and host of tech show Technobyte. Anastasiou, a recent Twitter convert, was up in Primedia Broadcasting's Eyewitness News helicopter yesterday, Wednesday, 22 April 2009, posting aerial photographs of various polling station in Gauteng on TwitPic, a service which allows the sharing of photographs on Twitter.
  • Talk Radio 702: Election tweets and retweets from @702land

Other South African social media

Overseas views


 
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