Mediagazer: Twitter Stands Alone (Dan Frommer/SplatF)

5:25 AM ET, November 8, 2012

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Dan Frommer / SplatF:

Twitter Stands Alone — In case you missed it, the United States elected a president yesterday. I try to stay away from politics — it's only fun in Chicago, anyway — but last night, I anxiously tuned in. — Election night television, it seems, hasn't changed much in the past four years …

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:
Twitter's hour-long sustained peak of 9,965 TPS during election displays shift in how service is used

Discussion: NYT Bits, The Huffington Post and Twitter Engineering

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:
On Election Day 2012, Twitter Kills the Great White Fail Whale

Discussion: Gizmodo, Forbes, Slate, Betabeat, Business Insider, VatorNews, Media Decoder, SocialTimes, Twitter Blog and Venture Capital Dispatch

Sam Youngman / Reuters:
Move over, Obama; Twitter had a big night too

Discussion: PC Magazine, SocialTimes, Gizmodo and Mashable!

Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:

How Conservative Media Lost to the MSM and Failed the Rank and File — Nate Silver was right. His ideological antagonists were wrong. And that's just the beginning of the right's self-created information disadvantage. — Before rank-and-file conservatives ask, “What went wrong?” …

Discussion: Forbes, Slate, bookforum.com and The Week

Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:

Times Was Slower, but Sure, in Calling the Presidential Election — A few observations on Tuesday night's online coverage and Wednesday's print edition: — The Empire State Building was in blue lights, Mitt Romney's Boston crowd was looking despondent, and even the careful Associated Press …

Discussion: The Wrap

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Why the NYT announced Obama's win 49 minutes after Obama did

Discussion: Forbes, The New York Observer, Rolling Stone, BBC, Gizmodo, Guardian, Speakeasy and NetNewsCheck Latest

Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:

How Karl Rove Fought With Fox News Over the Ohio Call — Megyn Kelly in Fox's decision room. — Shortly before 5 p.m. yesterday, Fox News chairman and CEO Roger Ailes assembled his network's election team in a second floor conference room at Fox's midtown headquarters to discuss the night's coverage.

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Mediaite, Inside Cable News, @brianstelter and Telegraph

Katherine Fung / The Huffington Post:
Rachel Maddow Rips Karl Rove On Fox News

Discussion: Chickaboomer and Baltimore Sun

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

Another election-night victory: CNN clocks most viewers in cable news — During last night's election coverage from Fox Broadcasting Network, which was airing on local Fox affiliates simultaneous to the coverage on Fox News, anchor Shepard Smith likened the American election system to cable news ratings.

Discussion: Cable Television News, TVNewser, Chickaboomer, Media Decoder, Radio & Television …, Nielsen Wire, Mediaite, Forbes and Washington Post

Richard Lawson / The Atlantic Wire:
Fox News Lost the Election Too, But Let's Not Gloat

Discussion: AdAge and TVNewser

Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:

Nate Silver's Biggest Critic Blames Botched Prediction, Romney's Loss On Hurricane Sandy — Correctly predicting the results of the presidential election in 50 out of 50 states makes Nate Silver look pretty smart — unless you're a dug-in critic, in which case maybe you just think it makes him look pretty lucky.

Discussion: The Airbnb Blog, Mashable!, AllThingsD, TechCrunch and Wired

Trevor Butterworth / The Daily Beast: Revenge of the Nerd: Nate Silver Is 2012's Other Winner

Dan Rowinski / ReadWrite:
Nate Silver's Model Proves To Be Stunning Portrait Of Logic Over Punditry

Discussion: Slate and The Huffington Post

Paul Bradshaw / Online Journalism Blog:
The US election was a wake up call for data illiterate journalists

Discussion: Forbes, TechCrunch, msnbc.com, Gawker, The Spot, GigaOM, CNET, AdAge, Globe and Mail, Charlie Beckett, Poynter, PandoDaily and @sulliview

Andy Greenberg / Forbes:

Bradley Manning Offers To Admit To Leaking Secrets To WikiLeaks In Court Plea — In the more than 900 days since Bradley Manning was first jailed as the suspected source of the WikiLeaks' bombshell releases of 2010 and early 2011, his legal defense has never disputed that the young Army private leaked …

Discussion: Firedoglake, CNET, Wired and Techdirt

Jeff John Roberts / GigaOM:

Is Tumblr the new GeoCities? VC Fred Wilson says no, points to ads — In the late 1990s, web-hosting site GeoCities burst into the world's top ten websites and attracted $3.5 billion from Yahoo — then quickly became internet road kill. As investors drool over a new generation of sites …

Discussion: GigaOM

Alan D. Mutter / Editor & Publisher:

Newsosaur: Publishers Fail to Diversify Digital Audience — Though newspapers have been pretty good over the years at growing traffic on their websites, they are shockingly bad at capitalizing on the social power of digital media to broaden their audiences.

Discussion: mediabistro.com

Dominic Patten / Deadline:

‘Innocence Of Muslims’ Producer Sentenced To Year In Prison — The producer of the anti-Islam film The Innocence Of Muslims has been sentenced to a year in federal prison for probation violations. Mark Basseley Youssef, aka Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, admitted in a hearing in Los Angeles today …

Discussion: Gawker

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Cord-Keeping: Pay TV Shrinks for the Quarter, Stays Steady for the Year — What with the crazy weather and Nate Silver's ascension to geek heaven and everything else, not a surprise that we didn't get to this yesterday. But, for the record: The pay-TV business lost 127,000 subscribers last quarter.

L. Wayne Hicks / Denver Business Journal:

Denver Post to sell share of Colorado Rockies … The Denver Post is putting its minority stake in the Colorado Rockies baseball team up for sale. — New York-based Digital First Media, which operates Post owner MediaNews Group, announced Wednesday the selloff of the 7.3 percent stake …

Alyson Shontell / Business Insider:

Photographers Will Soon Be The Most Valuable People In The News Room — Photographers will soon be the most valuable people in the newsroom, and it won't be long before they put writers out of jobs. — Why? — Because, when you're on the go, the easiest stories to consume, create or share aren't text based.

Discussion: TechCrunch

Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:

Judge Denies Injunction Against Dish ‘AutoHop Ad-Skipper’ (Exclusive) — Judge Dolly Gee makes a secret ruling on a technology that Fox argues will irreparably harm the television industry. — On Wednesday, U.S. District Court Judge Dolly Gee in Los Angeles refused to grant Fox Broadcasting's …

Discussion: The Verge and Los Angeles Times

Chris Ariens / TVNewser:

Diane Sawyer Has Read Your Tweets, ‘The Good, Bad and the Funny’ — ABC's Diane Sawyer, trending for a time on Twitter last night for what some are calling oddball behavior during election coverage, has taken to Twitter herself, acknowledging the chatter about her.

Discussion: TVbytheNumbers, Hollywood Reporter, Rolling Stone, FishbowlDC, New York Magazine, Tampa Bay Times and Associated Press

Frazier Moore / Associated Press:
ABC's Diane Sawyer spurs jokes from Twitterverse

Discussion: Gawker and The Atlantic Wire

Erik Wemple:

MSNBC's Matthews says he's ‘glad we had that storm last week’ — Last night on MSNBC, Chris Matthews took a moment to deliver a lofty summation of election night. He professed to be “proud of the country.” He credited President Obama for overcoming “all this assault on him.”

Discussion: Mediaite

Julie Moos / Poynter:
25 election front pages let pictures speak louder with words

Discussion: Garcia Media, Hollywood Reporter, Capital New York and New York Times

Roy Greenslade / Guardian:

Arrested Sun journalists are between a rock and a hard place — Arrested Sun journalists are finding themselves caught between a rock and hard place as they contemplate their dilemma while on police bail. Some of them would like to help Scotland Yard police who are investigating …

Guardian: Mirror Group journalists questioned by company lawyers over alleged hacking