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Twitter Vote Report

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Technology, Voting

Voting tomorrow? Use Twitter?

Well, if you have problems at your polling station or if there’s a really long line, you can report about it from your phone with Twitter Vote Report.

It’ll even show up on this handy dandy chart…

Now you know so there are no excuses. :-)

This entry was posted on Tuesday, November 4th, 2008 and is filed under 2008 Election, Technology, Voting. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

2 Responses to “Twitter Vote Report”

Karen Marlowe Says:
November 4th, 2008 at 8:28 am
thirty-six minutes door to door
Greg Harrison Says:
November 4th, 2008 at 11:43 am
Thanks Justin - I’ve been using Vote Report too, and have seem some interesting stats/stories so far.

Another great Twitter resource is a new microsite I’ve been working on with Tropicana. The site collates all the tweets about the election in a really interesting way - think of it as “Freshly Squeezed Election Tweets!” The site shows frequency and context of election-related terms, live as they happen. Consider it a living information graphic: the picture changes over time as the conversation develops over time. The site will pull a continuous stream of tweets mentioning Obama and McCain; it’s a cool resource that really provides a visual backdrop to the chatter on Twitter.

If interested, check out the site here: http://www.AnOrangeAmerica.com. Thanks!

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