Twitter's growing influence on politics and elections - video

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Watch highlights from Adam Sharp’s Changing Media Summit session. Twitter’s global head of news and politics looked at how news-gathering organisations can analyse and understand political conversations taking place on the social platform, as well as offering insights into what British politicians and campaigners can learn from their international counterparts when it comes to electioneering on Twitter.

He announced the results of a poll Twitter carried out with 3,000 of its users. The results are, as Sharp put it, startling:

Sharp also lauded the Twitter skills of US senator Claire McCaskill.

Watch the full session, and all other 2015 Changing Media Summit sessions, at our live stream archive here.

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