TwittElection
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Twittelection is a project that combines Twitter and elections by creating constituency-specific Twitter lists and statistics on candidates. Although it faced challenges with data sourcing and user engagement, it successfully gathered information on around 4,000 candidates. Future steps include enhancing configurability, promoting the code, and potential applications in other elections.
TwittElection
- 1. Twittelection Twitter in the General Election http://twittelection.co.uk Dave Cross @davorg @twittelection
- 3. What?
- 6. TwittElection β Twitter account β @TwittElection β Twitter lists β One per constituency β Web site β twittelection.co.uk β Page per constituency β Stats
- 7. Why?
- 13. How?
- 14. How? β Technology β Pretty easy β Data β Much harder
- 15. Technology β Twitter β Lists & Widgets β Recent changes β Perl β Net::Twitter β Github pages
- 17. Data β Much harder problem β 650 constituencies β ~6 candidates per constituency β ~4000 candidates β No centralised data source
- 20. YourNextMP β Crowd-sourced list of candidates β Party affiliation β Twitter username β And an API
- 21. Technology + Data β YMNP API β JSON β Basic data munging β Twitter List API β TwittElection
- 22. What Happened?
- 24. A few bugs
- 27. 403 & 429
- 28. 108
- 29. Adding non- existent user to a list
- 32. 106
- 33. The user has blocked you
- 34. @glenntingle
- 45. Statistics
- 46. 72%
- 47. Candidates By Party Party Twitter No Twitter Conservative 84% 16% Labour 93% 7% Lib Dem 70% 30% UKIP 51% 49% Green 77% 23% SNP 100% 0% Plaid Cymru 83% 17%
- 48. Was It Worth It?
- 50. Was It Worth It? β Small number of users β Lack of marketing β No stats on Twitter lists β People said nice things
- 51. Next Steps β Make it configurable β Promote code β http://github.com/davorg/twittelection β Re-use in other elections β UK & International β Twitter + PopIt