Comments on: Analyzed what Twitter votes (graphic)

By: erik

erik — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:52:44 +0000

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.

By: Wilbert

Wilbert — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:35:10 +0000

Hi Gonzalo, thanks for your comment. You can read more about the query here. We use "I voted" as a combination in the query.

By: Gonzalo

Gonzalo — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:19:46 +0000

Very interesting survey. I am writing from Spain Europe and have a question:
”
What happens i someone twitts something like I will not vote for that *—* of mccain”? Or viceversa.

Thanks.

By: despuesdegoogle » Blog Archive » Obama gana las elecciones… en Twitter

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:33:53 +0000

[...] Twitterpoll muestra este resultado (vía hypernarrative): [...]

By: Election Results According to Twitter | twitAD - Advertise On Twitter

Election Results According to Twitter | twitAD - Advertise On Twitter — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:08:56 +0000

[...] *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. [...]

By: PolkaRobot | Blog Archiv » Mit Twitter das Ergebnis der heutigen US-Wahl prognostizieren

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:02:47 +0000

[...] 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. [...]

By: Wilbert

Wilbert — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 13:36:53 +0000

@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.

By: michael

michael — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 13:27:49 +0000

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!

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Il risultato delle elezioni in Usa secondo Twitter | Technico Blog — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 12:33:04 +0000

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Election Results According To Twitter | twitAD - Advertise On Twitter — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 11:46:27 +0000

[...] *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. [...]

By: Election Results According To Twitter »TechAddress

Election Results According To Twitter »TechAddress — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 11:30:30 +0000

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Election Results According To Twitter — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 11:00:32 +0000

[...] 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 [...]

By: Wilbert

Wilbert — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 10:22:22 +0000

Cool, thanks

By: Anne Helmond

Anne Helmond — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 10:15:53 +0000

You two make a great combo :) I just posted this beautiful visualization to Mashable: http://mashable.com/2008/11/04/election-twitter/

By: Inge Janse

Inge Janse — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 07:50:13 +0000

Nice! A rather clear way of visualizing numbers that otherwise would remain vague in the cloud. Something for Digg & StumbleUpon, I’d say.