Awesome UK General election Twitter monitoring websites
Posted: April 18th, 2010 | Author: Illiya Vjestica | Filed under: General Twitter, Social Media, Twitter Tool | Tags: election, politics, Social Media, tools, twitter | 1 Comment »As the UK general election is fast approaching we UK voters are currently weighing up whether we should vote Labour, Conservative, or Liberal. Whilst we’ve been busy decoding politicians election policies a number of digital agencies have been busy creating social media microsites designed to monitor the buzz and tweets around the general election.
Firstly, before I get straight into giving you the low down on these Twitter general election websites I still haven’t quite decided who to vote for, although I’m leaning towards the Lib dems. These websites are a really great way for a undecided voter to canvas the opinion of their fellow Tweeters about what’s being said for each election candidate.
Tweetlection is the brain child of Leeds based digital agency Sense. Hat’s off to Sense because this is a really well thought out and designed tool. It reminded me of Google analytics by how I could analyse the social media data around each political party. I partially liked the top words section above each political party, delving into a party section will bring you in-depth analysis and data on the latest Tweets across the Twittersphere. Here you can specifically filter by Retweets, include or exclude keywords or search by gender.
Go on have a play for yourself!
Slapometer.com is the proud creation of London based digital agency Albion. Rather than focus on pure analytical insights and data, Albion have decided to put the fun back into voting by allowing you to slap a politician (depending on your own personal preference). Ask yourself this, did one of David Cameron’s policies strike you as crazy? Well…give him a slap to show your distaste in the matter.
It’s a very interesting site and very well put together. The Slaptistics page delves into the user generated data, currently David Cameron had the highest slaptistics at 50% of the slap for the first TV debate and racking up a total of 1.4 million slaps. The slapped most section in the stats is my personal favourite, an interesting fact from the site is that 62% of people slapped all three leaders!
10downingtweets, is the creation of London and Leeds based digital agency Twentysix digital. Interestingly enough it’s not just the major three parties tweets mentioned on this website, 10downingtweets also brings the tweets direct to you from the Green party, UKIP and believe or not the BNP.
10downingtweets is focused heavily on what the politicians are saying rather than the voters. However the homepage gives a nice overview of individual tweeters general election tweets.
The polls are a nice feature and there are some interesting stats from the voters, the website overall is extremely well designed and put together.
The politicians wish they had websites like these…
It just makes you think how good the UK political digital campaigns could of been if they had hired digital agencies to run their online marketing. Econsultancy recently did a post called Election memo to party leaders: Please sort out your terrible websites it’s a great read and it’s nice to laugh at such poorly thought out websites. (I only hope someone from each political party read it!)
Good to see Nick Clegg on Twitter (even though it’s managed by @davidangell his web officer) , I believe he’s a forward thinking politician. It’s really important for me as a voter that politician’s come and speak to me on my social networks because I’m sure not writing them a letter, I’d much rather Tweet my views and opinions.
If you’ve found some other websites that we’ve missed, we’d love to hear about them in the comments.
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bloggers and the wider-public. The index will grow over time too as it seeks out further connections by analysing the conversations taking place between its initial index of users and those that they converse with.