Doug March

design, development and music intelligence

Politweets – Now With Candidate Pages

Posted at Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

With today being Super Tuesday, two days after Super Sunday and the same day as Mardi Gras we thought it would be good to make some updates to politweets.

A lot of you noticed that the center column just didn’t make sense. “We should be able to click on those names” was often read around the internets. So we did just that, each name is now clickable and takes you to their “candidate page”. As of right now we are showing the last 3 tweets from the candidate (if they have an active twitter account) and the last 3 tweets you the “citizen journalists” have reported. We are also providing some quick links to the candidates activity on other social sites around the internet.

We are working on some other ideas for post Super Tuesday. Presidential hopefuls are more clear, we will be producing some interesting charts and graphs to document “the daily buzz”. We are always looking for suggestions, feel free to leave a comment and we will take your thoughts into consideration for the next release.

Thanks again for all the kind words about the site, they are much appreciated!

**update
We are now showing the latest flickr photos and youtube videos on the candidate pages.

  1. Thanks, for the updates to PoliTweets.

    How did the servers/website do on Super Tuesday?

    Gravatar John F Croston III | February 6, 2008 | 11am
  2. Servers held up fine, there was a ton of traffic though. It was great to see everyone using the site.

    Gravatar Doug March | February 6, 2008 | 11am

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