The other week I launched TWT on DemConnect. I’m excited about this new stats/data venture and what it means for understanding how people (government officials in this case) are interacting with Twitter. Here’s a short behind-the-scenes look at what I’m doing:
- First, most of this is automated. If you know me at all, and how I like to work, if there’s a way to automate a part of a job, I’ll attempt to do that. In this case, I’ve automated the data collection process. I’ve created software that grabs key data points daily for a selected group of users. Right now it’s grabbing government accounts, but it could in reality grab any public Twitter account. (This will probably feed into a future research project
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I’m starting to gain an interest in game theory (not the economic kind – I’ve always had an interest in that and have done my share of reading, the video game kind) and the possible intersection with campaign politics. I recently started re-reading Richard Bartle’s Hearts, Clubs, Diamonds, Spades: Players who Suit MUDs, and have begun to think – there must be some type of overlap in successful online campaign politics and MUDs (or social networks, or video games…). My goal in this series to pave a roadmap for how a campaign (political — or even cause-based) might reach out to constituents and keep them engaged and involved throughout (and beyond) the election.
Flash back to 2008 when My.BarackObama.com took campaigns to a whole …
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