Reminder about tonight's debate

Earlier this week, I posted about Friday's debate and Jeremiah's debate scoring game.  As a reminder, the post is listed below.  But alot has changed in the fast moving world of Twitter since then.

• We had the whole #suspending controversy and a fun meme on Twitter that is still going on
• Twitter introduced Election 2008, an election filtered twitter feed 
• And as a result, numerous people have provided great insight into the tool and its meaning:
• Joseph Jaffe gives the election feed a Twen 
• Bryan Person is impressed by the new site. 
• Nicholas Carlson of ValleyWag describes the site with an animated 40 second video of people's tweets.
  
•  Laura Porto Stockwell provided her thoughts on Twitter's Election 2008, calling it a news ticker by the people.
• Frederic Lardinois of ReadWriteWeb points out that perhaps the election site is a sign of things to come.
• Don Reisinger of TechCrunch suggests that Twitter should go beyond the mashups to create groups to extend the functionality to create a much more robust Twitter experience. 
• And very interestingly, Jennifer Leggio points out that perhaps this is how Twitter will monetize itself.
  

. Personally, I agree with many of the writers above. I think the election site is a great way to tap into the audience's appetite for all things electoral.  It is most definitely a test of more group-oriented experiential feeds and quite possibly how Twitter will generate revenue, either via ads, sponsored groups, or something else.  And one more thing, before I forget, don't forget to tune in tonight and keep one eye on the TV and one eye on Twitter.
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The first of 4 Presidential debates will be held on Friday, September 26, 2008 at 9PM Eastern. with domestic policy focus from the campus of The University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS.

You may recall last February's Super Bowl when Jeremiah Owyang organized a fun side-game where we all rated the commercials on Twitter. Well, Jeremiah has a great idea to utilize Twitter to rate the debates in a similar fashion.  Be the Armchair political analyst and use Twitter to Score the Debate has all of the details and scoring examples.  It should make the debates even more enjoyable and meaningful.  Let's hope that Twitter is up to the task and the Fail Whale does not appear.