Popular on Twitter: WaPo sponsoring #election, newspaper extinction timeline, and giant web ads

By Hourly Press Nov. 2, 2010, 1 p.m.

[Early every afternoon Eastern time, we’ll be highlighting the most-talked-about links in the future-of-news corner of Twitter. What are news nerds buzzing about? Here are today’s top 10, gathered via The Hourly Press. It’s like being on Twitter all day, without actually having to be on Twitter all day. —Josh]

Steve Myers on The Washington Post sponsoring #Election

New York Times’ Word Train returns for election day

ReadWriteWeb: Those grassroots election tweets? They may be astroturf

San Diego Union-Tribune offers free newspapers for Foursquare check-ins

Tracking the president’s progress with WTF Has Obama Done So Far?

Going behind the newly released Times UK’s subscription numbers

Washington Post asks crowd to watch election with #Votemonitor

The Newspaper Extinction Timeline launches

The aftermath of the Giants’ World Series win on San Francisco Police Scanner

Media Memo: The stopping power of giant web ads

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