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“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.”
A snapshot:
Twitter Unveils the Twindex, a New Political Index - NYTimes.com
20120803 a.m. Obama 51 versus Romney 26
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ReplyDelete20120805 a.m. Obama 74 Romney 39
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ReplyDelete20120806 a.m. Obama 74 Romney 27
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ReplyDelete20120808 Obama 35 Romney 19
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ReplyDelete20120815 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
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