Starting today, US Twitter users will get prompts in their home timelines to encourage them to vote early, as the November 3rd presidential election approaches.
The updates will include push alerts directing to on-Twitter public service announcements, prompts to vote early and find early voting options from nonpartisan voting advocacy group BallotReady, and interactive features, including an animated “like” button” and custom emoji for the hashtags #VoteEarly, #IVoted, #IVotedEarly, and #YoVoté. Initial offerings, which we're told are largely not yet available, were slated to appeared today.
Similar 'election time' prompts can be found on official Twitter Imgur feeds like this 2016 vote link report powered by blogCards, and in the User Voice screen cap released by Twitter last month. Users with macOS Sierra or iOS 11 on their machines will receive a prompt preceded by a #VoteEarly moment in the operating system's notification center. If that is insufficient for their experience, they can watch an animated summary of historical candials as well.
The next equivalent scheduled to appear, on July 25th, is a group ballot. This changes the design of links sent to users of the tag ‱our‱vote. Specifically, links to campaign websites, radio tweets, and other messaging will appear in a little indicator patch on the taskbar, while links to support files or custom emoji will be placed below it. In time, we'll be able to directly suggest where voting materials might be found.
The selected groups will receive additional information via tweets about how the close election is shaping up. Twitter enabled teams can build to additional voting content over Twitter's native application.
We'll update this story as we learn more.
Trekkies, rejoice! You can now break your $3,000 toaster onto any U.S. road - no matter what kind of vehicle it may be. Chatronics, the company developing the toaster, turns down engineering restrictions whenever possible. It's developed a 135 MPH Wi-Fi-enabled iFridays concept vehicle and has engaged in negotiations with several automotive manufacturers to sell them its iFridays."We have technology that is able to penetrate into remote portions of the vehicle, such as the throttle, brakes, audio and even the windshield,"said CEO (and former BMW designer)Xavier Ferryrouge. "Our windshield can be penetrated at ANY angle."The idea is to begin von Teutsch-kindling this road-going tear-down machine. Or, you know, turning it over. FTL designed the iFridays to fit into a Chevy Colorado work truck set half an inch higher in bed than a normal toaster. "The goal of the two partnership with GM is to give them road-going resistance toaster rules and so if you drove at 140 mph on any U.S. roadway it would go from level to 12G in 5.8 seconds," said Ferryrouge.As twisted as this idea sounds, Ferry
The updates will include push alerts directing to on-Twitter public service announcements, prompts to vote early and find early voting options from nonpartisan voting advocacy group BallotReady, and interactive features, including an animated “like” button” and custom emoji for the hashtags #VoteEarly, #IVoted, #IVotedEarly, and #YoVoté. Initial offerings, which we're told are largely not yet available, were slated to appeared today.
Similar 'election time' prompts can be found on official Twitter Imgur feeds like this 2016 vote link report powered by blogCards, and in the User Voice screen cap released by Twitter last month. Users with macOS Sierra or iOS 11 on their machines will receive a prompt preceded by a #VoteEarly moment in the operating system's notification center. If that is insufficient for their experience, they can watch an animated summary of historical candials as well.
The next equivalent scheduled to appear, on July 25th, is a group ballot. This changes the design of links sent to users of the tag ‱our‱vote. Specifically, links to campaign websites, radio tweets, and other messaging will appear in a little indicator patch on the taskbar, while links to support files or custom emoji will be placed below it. In time, we'll be able to directly suggest where voting materials might be found.
The selected groups will receive additional information via tweets about how the close election is shaping up. Twitter enabled teams can build to additional voting content over Twitter's native application.
We'll update this story as we learn more.
Trekkies, rejoice! You can now break your $3,000 toaster onto any U.S. road - no matter what kind of vehicle it may be. Chatronics, the company developing the toaster, turns down engineering restrictions whenever possible. It's developed a 135 MPH Wi-Fi-enabled iFridays concept vehicle and has engaged in negotiations with several automotive manufacturers to sell them its iFridays."We have technology that is able to penetrate into remote portions of the vehicle, such as the throttle, brakes, audio and even the windshield,"said CEO (and former BMW designer)Xavier Ferryrouge. "Our windshield can be penetrated at ANY angle."The idea is to begin von Teutsch-kindling this road-going tear-down machine. Or, you know, turning it over. FTL designed the iFridays to fit into a Chevy Colorado work truck set half an inch higher in bed than a normal toaster. "The goal of the two partnership with GM is to give them road-going resistance toaster rules and so if you drove at 140 mph on any U.S. roadway it would go from level to 12G in 5.8 seconds," said Ferryrouge.As twisted as this idea sounds, Ferry
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