Comments on: Twitter elections 2008: a landscape of thoughts http://mastersofmedia.hum.uva.nl/2008/10/12/twitter-elections-2008-a-landscape-of-thoughts/ Research Blog Masters of New Media Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:47:22 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: wilbert@hypernarrati http://mastersofmedia.hum.uva.nl/2008/10/12/twitter-elections-2008-a-landscape-of-thoughts/comment-page-1/#comment-103456 wilbert@hypernarrati Mon, 03 Nov 2008 07:04:48 +0000 http://mastersofmedia.hum.uva.nl/?p=3017#comment-103456 Hi I just noticed your post, yesterday I made a little gimmick with Twitter. It searches for answers to a simple query "I voted" + McCain OR Obama. The results give a personal (short) testimonials of the people voting. The often tell you why the voted for who. It's just an experiment with the data that is in Twitter, but if you ask the right questions you can build exciting stories. http://www.hypernarrative.com/wordpress/2008/11/02/i-voted-storytelling-with-public-databases/ Hi I just noticed your post, yesterday I made a little gimmick with Twitter. It searches for answers to a simple query “I voted” + McCain OR Obama. The results give a personal (short) testimonials of the people voting. The often tell you why the voted for who.

It’s just an experiment with the data that is in Twitter, but if you ask the right questions you can build exciting stories.

http://www.hypernarrative.com/wordpress/2008/11/02/i-voted-storytelling-with-public-databases/

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