Analyzed what Twitter votes (graphic)
Topics: Experiments, Featured, Journalism, Live Web, Things I do
Based on Twitterpoll by Erik Borra I made this visualization. The animation is created form filtering tweets on content. If someone says he or she voted for Obama or McCain this information is stored and turned into numbers. This creates an election poll based on tweets.
You can say Twitter is pretty much in favor of Obama. To update the results refresh the page.
A point goes to Obama if the regular expression /vote.*?obama/i succeeds, it goes to McCain if the regular expression /vote.*mccain/i succeeds, else it is undecided / unrecognized.
The animations that led to this animation
1. http://www.hypernarrative.com/wordpress/2008/11/02/i-voted-storytelling-with-public-databases/
2. http://www.hypernarrative.com/wordpress/2008/11/03/we-say-twittertalk/
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November 4 2008 @ 8:50 am
Nice! A rather clear way of visualizing numbers that otherwise would remain vague in the cloud. Something for Digg & StumbleUpon, I’d say.
November 4 2008 @ 11:15 am
You two make a great combo :) I just posted this beautiful visualization to Mashable: http://mashable.com/2008/11/04/election-twitter/
November 4 2008 @ 11:22 am
Cool, thanks
November 4 2008 @ 12:00 pm
[...] the visualization of the Twitter Poll data can be found here: http://www.hypernarrative.com/wordpress/2008/11/04/analyzed-what-twitter-votes-graphic/ Reply here [...]
November 4 2008 @ 12:30 pm
[...] *edit: as noted by Anne Helmond in the comments, there’s another, even more extensitve Twitter poll – although it doesn’t take into consideration individual states – here; and there’s a nice visualization for it here. [...]
November 4 2008 @ 12:46 pm
[...] *edit: as noted by Anne Helmond in the comments, there’s another, even more extensitve Twitter poll – although it doesn’t take into consideration individual states – here; and there’s a nice visualization for it here. [...]
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November 4 2008 @ 2:27 pm
Since this seems more like an exit poll than a prediction, ’still undecided’ should perhaps be something more like ‘unknown/other’?
Great work Erik and Wilbert!
November 4 2008 @ 2:36 pm
@michael you’re right. Thanks for your comment. Unrecognized (undecided) is the group where it’s not clear what they voted, because it is al based on indexing text.
This afternoon I have access to the file and will change it.
November 4 2008 @ 3:02 pm
[...] Bei Twitter Poll von Erik Borra handelt es sich um eine einfache, aggregierte Auswertung einer Twitter Suche, bei der man sich zusätzlich die entsprechenden Tweets anzeigen lassen kann. Die folgende Visualisierung zu Twitter Poll stammt von Wilbert Baan. [...]
November 4 2008 @ 3:08 pm
[...] *edit: as noted by Anne Helmond in the comments, there’s another, even more extensive Twitter poll – although it doesn’t take into consideration individual states – here; and there’s a nice visualization for it here. [...]
November 4 2008 @ 3:33 pm
[...] Twitterpoll muestra este resultado (vía hypernarrative): [...]
November 4 2008 @ 4:19 pm
Very interesting survey. I am writing from Spain Europe and have a question:
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What happens i someone twitts something like I will not vote for that *—* of mccain”? Or viceversa.
Thanks.
November 4 2008 @ 4:35 pm
Hi Gonzalo, thanks for your comment. You can read more about the query here. We use “I voted” as a combination in the query.
November 4 2008 @ 6:52 pm
Spot on Wilbert. Because we query ‘i voted’ AND (obama OR mccain) we can get away with a looser regular expression. It is not always right, but the amount of false positives is really low.