National elections usually generate a lot of debate, but what about European Elections? And has Europe started to adopt social media tactics when it comes to campaigning and mobilizing voters? We thought it would be interesting to see how Twitter reflects these developments so we have created TweetElect09.eu, a website that tracks and analyses discussions about the upcoming European Elections on Twitter in 14 languages.
Tweets are filtered by country, political party and by number of times different candidates are mentioned. News will also be streamed on election night by news channels for example France24, alongside the Twitter stream.
TweetElect09 has already analyzed more than 13,000 tweets referring to the election and France is the most active country followed by Sweden in second place and Germany in third. Please join the discussion and have tweets appear on TweetElect09 by using the #eu09 hashtag when tweeting.
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May 28th, 2009 at 5:03 pm
Should be interesting to see what is going on with the elections there. I keep seeing more and more ways to use Twitter. At first Twitter seemed kind of boring but more than a year later it seems to keep adapting thanks to many developers.