UK General Election Tweets
Channel: tommorris
Date: 07/05/2010

I patched the General Election feed from Twitter into IRC last night. I shot a very brief screencast just to show how fast they were coming in from the filtered. It doesn't quite give you the full extent: I was reposting them into IRC at 1 msg ever 0.8 seconds, and within about 15 minutes I'd have a huge backlog. I could walk away from my machine and in a minute or two, there'd be a few hundred more tweets. Don't let anyone tell you that the Twitter/Facebook/social media generation is apathetic about politics.