Debate Effect on Twitter
Friday is typically a slower day on Twitter but not last week. Election momentum continues to build on Twitter and a few stats from Friday show it.

Trending: "iDon't Think So"
Apple has captured the top trend today as people react to the company's bold threat to close the world's biggest music store if American music publishers raise royalties 66%.

Trending: Repentance
# Rosh Hashanah is trending on Twitter as folks reflect back on the year in 140 characters or less—shofar sho good? # Iron Man was released today on DVD and Blu Ray and Twitter is teeming with plans to watch it at home tonight.

The Debate: A Twitter Play-by-Play
This graph illustrates tweet volume for specific terms mentioned during the course of last week's presidential debate. For example, how many updates per minute contained the word "Iran." Of the terms in this graph, the most twittered word in a one minute time span was "Iraq" at nearly 300 just after McCain's assertion that Obama did not visit the area for 900 days. We've annotated a few of the spikes with what the candidates were saying at the time. For more election related information, visit Twitter Elect