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Politweets

Experiment ยท 2008

Built over a weekend with the Character140 collective โ€” a group of DC-area developers and designers. Politweets scraped Twitter's public timeline for presidential candidate mentions and displayed them in real time, homepage styled like a digital newspaper. Went live just before the New Hampshire primaries. Covered by HuffPost, Mashable, ZDNet, and ReadWriteWeb. Six to nine months later, Twitter shipped their own version at election.twitter.com.

Type
Experiment
Year
2008
Doug March ยท Product Designer & DeveloperArchive