Newt Gingrich has suspended his campaign, Rick Santorum has reached his limit and Mitt Romney has won the title of presumptive Republican presidential nominee. (Assuming that Ron Paul's delegate strategy comes up short.) Now as a two man race between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama, we can compare the candidates' platforms, promises and platitudes. And since it is now 2012 we can compare the candidates' Twitter feeds. Very serious business...

Crunching the Candidates' Twitter Feeds

On this site, I have been collecting our elected officials' Tweets since May 2011 (149,000 tweets and counting), including the tweets from President ...

Have you heard about the House's Stop Online Piracy Act bill yet? Technology analysts warn that provisions in SOPA, and its sister bill in the Senate (the Protect IP Act), will cripple many of the largest technology companies. Twitter, Facebook, Google, Wikipedia, and many others have come out against the bills. Things have escalated to the point that Reddit has planned a mass productivity increase initiative as a form of protest.

All of that is fine and dandy, but the votes that count are cast by Congress. Many members have communicated their views using Twitter, I have tabulated and ...

I had two goals when I came up with the idea of PolitickerUSA

• To show current trends of U.S. Politicians Twitter feeds.
• To analyze an ever growing database of political tweets.

Well after a few months of collecting feeds from the President, Senators & Congresspeople, I am ready to crack my knuckles and dig deeper in to the data. After looking at the first analysis, my first impression is:

Let's reinforce some political stereotypes!

We live in a partisan world. It is fun to contrast the two parties and see how they score their political points. But in what ...

Thanks for visiting the PolitickerUSA blog. I am hoping to highlight nifty trends that come through the collected tweets from U.S. politicians and write up deep analysis of how our nation's leaders are using Twitter to communicate.