The nation and even a lot of people outside of the United States were all atwitter last night about vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s speech at the Republican National Convention — on Twitter .
In what it’s calling the “Palin Peak,” the micro messaging service has a post today outlining how much traffic spiked during her talk. The verdict? If you thought Google’s launch of its new browser Chrome was big, it has nothing on Palin.
That has to be good news for the service; it shows that while many of the so-called “early adopters” on Twitter were tech elites who are naturally going to talk about tech topics, Twitter is gaining more steam around other topics — like politics and natural disasters . (Interestingly, Twitter doesn’t compare Palin’s traffic versus the much-hyped speech Obama gave the week before.)
It’s also noteworthy that the mainstream media is helping Twitter move to main...
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