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Twitter Vote Report monitors the US election via micro-blogging
Written by Simon Columbus on November 2, 2008 – 1:27 am -
Description: Discriminating officials, fraudulent voting machines or simply long wait times are some of the problems voters may be facing on November 4th. Twitter Vote Report gives American voters an opportunity to report incidents on Election Day using their mobile phones and share them with others.
Digital Tools Being Used: Mobile phones, Twitter, Google Maps mashup, Plodt, iPhone app.
What Are They Doing: Twitter Vote Report aggregates short messages from people all over the US during the election.
Twitterers can use the hash tag “votereport” to let Twitter Vote Report know about an incident. But reports can also be submitted by sending a SMS to the organizers, using an iPhone / Android app or simply calling them.
Twitter Vote Report will aggregate all messages sent to them and display them on their front page. They also offer a RSS feed for those who want to receive all the messages. But to make more use of the information sent in, Twitter Vote Report offers some additional tags that can be added to a tweet to indicate a specific problem: Read more »
Tags: Election, Google Maps, Plodt, twitter activism, Twitter Vote Report, United States, Voting
Posted in Action Alerts, Americas, Mashups | 4 Comments »