Many 2010Election Results Too Close To Call By Greg Jarboe Facebook is losing access to Gmail data due to a change in Google's term of services, but really because Facebook won't share its social graph data with Google.
This makes it very hard to determine the impact of digital media on the outcome of an election -- something that I discovered during my coverage of UKElection2010: Lessons Learned from Watching First Social Media Battle of Britain.
I started my coverage of UKElection2010 by quoting part of Winston Churchill's famous speech, "We shall fight them on the beaches. The "air campaign" in UKElection2010 was fought during the three leaders' debates, each in primetime.
UKElection2010: The Dog That Didn't Bark UKElection2010: What Does Dan Berman Think? UKElection2010: For Want of a Nail, the Shoe was Lost This local online campaigning continues to be mostly neglected by pundits and, whilst it's is more an...
Back on April 5, I said we were about to witness Britain's first "social media election. And I predicted that UKElection2010 "will be fought on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and blogs. However, Britain's first social media election seems more like...
In other words, it's trench warfare in social media as well as mainstream media in the UKelection2010, where each party battles in no man's land for a few yards of ground. The top term in this week's UKelection2010 seems to be "hung Parliament.