Twitter has announced that it has updated its polling feature, giving users the ability to customize how long the polls lasted for. By default they were 24 hours, but now it can be modified to run as short as five minutes or as long as seven days. This comes after the company revealed that more than 1.7 billion votes have been cast since the feature’s inception.
https://twitter.com/twitter/status/688054408349745152
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For the first time, Twitter revealed how rapidly its users adopted polling. Since October 2015, there have been 1.7 billion votes cast; based on rough math and using the 320 million monthly active users, this equates to 1.77 votes cast per user per month.
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