Presidential Debate on Twitter

I thought this would be a disaster. I just assumed that because you’re limited to 140 characters, it would be really difficult to follow. Interestingly enough, it’s turning out pretty well. The candidates are doing a great job of distilling down their main points into twitter-sized nuggets and communicating them pretty effectively. Then you’ve got Newt Gingrich throwing out multi-part tweets every other time he answers a question.

There is live coverage of this debate over at Rusty Humphries’ ustream (Adobe Flash required). It did take about 10 minutes for it to load for me, however.