Real-time UK General Election Tweets with node.js & websockets from json Watch Video
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Description: As a quick crowd-sourcing experiment, I wondered whether the amount of Tweets about the political parties in the UK General Election 2010, would reflect people's voting intentions.nnI built an app that connected to the Twitter real-time streaming API and calculated % share of Tweets about the various political parties and broadcast these as real-time JSON updates using HTML5 websockets to connected clients.
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