Twitter Swamped on Election Day?
I would love to see the statistics for the number of Tweets and Facebook uploads for this day alone. Since a couple of my mobile uploads never went through I’m guessing both applications are getting swamped with updates. However, after resubmitting they successfully went through – no downtime for Twitter!. Looks like that new funding is being well spent.
Categories: facebook, internet
Barack Obama, facebook, twitter
One cool way to sort through everything coming through twitter today is Tropicana’s Freshly Squeezed Election Tweets, a twitter visualization:
http://anorangeamerica.com/
I’ve been working on the site with Tropicana, and we just launched it this morning. It aggregates tweets real-time and creates a “bubble” proportional to each term’s volume (analogous to a word cloud). It then draws connections between terms mentioned together. It’s addicting to play around with and watch it update!