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How the election looks from Twitter
By DATA TEAM
How the election looks from Twitter
IT DOES NOT take long for a political strategy to be reduced to a meme. Ed Miliband, Labour’s leader, had barely finished unveiling a six-foot rock engraved with Labour’s promises, before Twitter was awash with #EdStone messages and photo-shopped pictures of Moses. In three days the hashtag has been used over 42,000 times.
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