Twitter is launching a voter registration campaign

Who said enlightened democracy was dying in the combative cesspool of social media?

Twitter has launched a voter registration campaign in partnership with TurboVote called #BeAVoter. 

Beginning Monday, Twitter will show users a prompt encouraging them to register to vote. The prompt will also include a tweet users can share to further encourage their followers to vote. 

TwitterGov, Twitter's politics arm, is running the campaign. It will promote the hashtag in the run-up to the election as a "Top US Trend." It will also provide "election reminders and an absentee ballot FAQ." Read more...