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Hack the Debate lets you eavesdrop on other people’s living rooms while watching live TV

By Julie Starr | Published: October 3, 2008

Current, a peer-to-peer news aggregator and broadcaster, and Twitter, a popular social network/microblogging platform, have teamed up to cover the vice-presidential debate between Sarah Palin and Joe Biden later today: Current & Twitter have teamed up for the very first time to integrate real-time Twitter messages (aka "tweets") over major portions of a live television broadcast.

Posted in Featured, Journalism, Social Media | Also tagged crowdsourcing, debate, election, Twitter | Leave a comment

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This is the blog of Julie Starr. I write about the news business and consult on newsroom integration and change projects.

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