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...poll has Obama well ahead of McCain among voters aged 18 to 34, 52% to 42%. "I'm betting young voters will make a big difference this time," says University of Florida political scientist Richard Scher. "The campaign in Florida is playing out as much on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter as it is on television...
...your mother's maiden name?" query, widely used for verification purposes by many banks and e-mail services. These days, security questions are getting more creative because they have to. As we make more and more personal information freely available online via our blogs, Facebook profiles, Flickr photos and Twitter, security questions based on biographical data are becoming less and less secure...
...said it's all about whether the candidate makes a connection. "There are some dope emcees who would perform at the Republican Convention, but not for McCain," he said. "He's not reaching out to us. He doesn't have a Facebook or a MySpace. He doesn't Twitter...
Drilling deeper into the data, you find two particularly common kinds of Twitterers. The first group, type H03 (14.7% of Twitter visitors), a.k.a the "Stable Career," comprises a "collection of young and ethnically diverse singles living in big-city metros like Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Miami." The Stable Career tends to work in the arts and entertainment industry, drive small cars and espouse very liberal political views...
Both H03s and H01s appear to be all-around Web 2.0 fans, favoring sites like Digg, Yelp and Google Docs. They not only persistently over-share information from their own lives, but they're also passionate about finding new lives online. Specifically, Twitter visitors are often looking for a new job (they spend a lot of time on job-hunting websites) and new relationships (they like dating and matchmaking websites too). Could it be possible that chronic Twittering is a cause rather than a characteristic of our analysis...