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Tracking the #AskObama Town Hall Data

Tuesday, July 12th, 2011
Posted by: Alla

Last week, we created a SLURP140 to track #askobama and @townhall for the twitter townhall hosted by @Jack Dorsey at the White House. We tracked the data and then created a downloadble CSV file that anyone can download for further analysis.  In fact, over the course of four days, we collected 153,136 tweets from 59,000+ users.  Download the file here!

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We also noticed that most of these users were tweeting from the web using standard browsers – which very different than the trends we often see with SURLP140-tracked events. The tweets themselves were longer than average; and chock-full of questions about jobs, the economy, and the debt ceiling.

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Gov 2.0 Summit 2010 – A Twitter Recap

Monday, September 13th, 2010
Posted by: Tyler Gray
Re-posted from The Bivings Report

Among many new developments, last week’s Gov 2.0 Summit here in Washington, DC  served as a perfect platform with  to use our new and improved SLURP140 tool, which tracked the influence, activity, and topics discussed on Twitter throughout the duration of the the conference. This two-day seminar sponsored by O’Reilly Media brought together decision makers from the public and private sectors to discuss the notions of open government and the power of the internet in citizens’ lives.

Through the use of SLURP140 (powered by ImpactWatch), The Bivings Report was able to track the hourly usage and cumulative twitter traffic of the conference. Likewise, we identified the most active users as Douglas Black (@dlblack), Alex Howard (@digiphile), the Government 2.0 Correspondent for O’Reilly Radar, and Nahum Gershon (@nahumg).

Overall, we tracked 9,064 specific tweets by 2,498 people.

Below is some of the analysis that we were able to draw from the Gov 2.0 Summit using SLURP140:

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If you missed the conference are interested in seeing some PowerPoint presentations from the movers and shakers in Government 2.0 arena-  Click this link to find your favorite panelists.

From an informal survey of other event attendees, the presentations by FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski “Reimagining FCC.gov for the 21st Century Consumer,” the Sunlight Foundation Executive Director Ellen Miller’s “Open Government Scorecard” and General Keith Alexander of the National Security Agencies’ presentation on “U:.S. Cybersecurity Policy, Strategy and U.S. Cybercom,” all received high praise and a lot of twitter traffic from everyone we spoke too.

For an overview of all the other articles written about the conference, check out the “News and Coverage” section of the Gov 2.0 summit.

To see all of the taped presentations and speeches on the Gov 2.0 Summit, check out gov2events.blip.tv or their YouTube Channel.

If you’re interested in seeing pictures from the event – the Flickr gallery can be found here.

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