I'm tweeting on Twitter's Election 2008 page. Hot Topics featured on this site include Florida, Ohio, Illinois, basically the names of states that have yet to tally their votes. A few folks on the Florida Hot Topics page are providing predictions on whom they think will win that state, while others are providing electoral vote updates based on data compiled by CNN and other news-related websites.
At 9:16 pm, one tweet stated that "McCain insiders say they have lost Florida, and CNN is calling Ohio for Obama." Weird thing is, at 9:17 pm, the Cnn.com Ohio results graph showed that the current tally is 57/42 Obama, based on only 9% of precincts' reporting. Wow! That tweet jumped the gun a bit. Tweeter may be fast at getting the news out there, but this instance proves that it's not always the most accurate.
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