Thursday, August 02, 2012

Twitter Unveils the Twindex, a New Political Index - NYTimes.com

Government by the people, 140 characters at a time

Adam Sharp, head of government, news and social innovation at Twitter, said in a phone interview that the new Twitter Index, or Twindex, monitors hundreds of millions of Twitter messages searching for opinions and views about both 2012 presidential candidates.

The messages are then sorted by what people are saying about President Obama or Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican nominee, and then creates a poll of those views.

The new site, housed at election.twitter.com, will be updated each day at 8 p.m., Eastern time, to reflect the latest daily views about the candidates.”

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Twitter Unveils the Twindex, a New Political Index - NYTimes.com

11 comments:

pbokelly said...

20120803 a.m. Obama 51 versus Romney 26

pbokelly said...

20120804 a.m. Obama 46 Romney 28

pbokelly said...

20120805 a.m. Obama 74 Romney 39

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pbokelly said...

20120806 a.m. Obama 74 Romney 27

pbokelly said...

20120807 a.m. Obama 61 Romney 24

pbokelly said...

20120808 Obama 35 Romney 19

pbokelly said...

20120810 Obama 20 Romney 12

pbokelly said...

20120811 Obama 24 Romney 14

pbokelly said...

20120813 Obama 36 Romney 44

pbokelly said...

20120815 Obama 37 Romney 29. p.s. the main page (http://election.twitter.com/) includes a chart showing daily trends, so this is my last update comment