In the 2012 US presidential election, it is clear the brief age of political blogs shaping the political narrative has passed and we are now in the era of Twitter. The proof is in Twitter’s big role in shaping the coverage and the winners and losers of this month’s presidential debates. At a seminar on the influence of social media on the presidential election – held at the Democrat convention in Charlotte – Garance Franke-Ruta, a senior editor for the Atlantic, declared: “[The] last cycle was all about blogs and the incremental journalism of blogs.” Read the full story at The Guardian.