Panda's Postings

My mom's family owned and operated the newspaper in Post, TX from 1957 until my grandfather passed away in 1981. Everyone in the family wrote for the paper, including my mom (Susan’s Stuff) and my grandpa Jim, whose column was named "Postings." I never knew my grandparents, but I’ve read the old Post Dispatch and seen the town library my grandmother founded. So in honor of them, I write my blog, Panda's Postings, and hope that it carries on in the spirit of their paper.

Tuesday, November 04, 2008

Twitter Vote Report

...is neat! Check it out. Tweet your vote. Follow me and I'll follow you!

UPDATE: Not endorsing Topicana, but the Freshly Squeezed Tweets are pretty cool too!

Posted by Panda Leigh at 5:54 AM

2 comments:

Simon Owens said...

Yeah, the Twitter Vote Report is a pretty cool way of aggregating the election day twitter data. I've been working on a similar election project that utilizes Twitter:Freshly Squeezed Tweets. It aggregates tweets like Twitter Vote Report, but it creates a more abstract visualization of the aggregate conversation on Twitter showing frequency and context of election-related words. The site will pull a continuous stream of tweets mentioning Obama and McCain, representing the most-used terms as a series of bubbles. The bigger the "bubble" the more frequently the term is being used. You can hover over each word to see a graphical breakdown of each word's use.

10:48 AM
Panda Leigh said...

Thanks, Simon. It's so addictive to watch! I'll add a link to my post.

10:58 AM

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