WASHINGTON, November 6 (RIA Novosti) - Facebook users in the United States can let the world know they voted in the US Presidential election Tuesday, with results displaying on a real-time map on the popular social networking site.
“This map is a representation of people on Facebook who clicked an Election Day prompt to share with their friends that they're voting in the 2012 US election,” said the Facebook team in a post on the website.
While Facebook masks the identity of which users voted, other information on those who self-reported their trip to the polls is available, such as their age, gender, and geographic location.
Facebook's team will also use its so-called “Talk Meter” to monitor and measure overall chatter and the most used terms and phrases on the site during Election Day. Facebook ranks topics on a scale of one-to-ten and posts results on its US Politics on Facebook page.
