The Twitter Health Care Campaign

July 29,2000

In July the Obama people launched a campaign to convince members of the Senate that their constitutents were in favor of health care reform. Email messages were sent to the mailing list asking recipients to call Senators. Also they developed a rather simple procedure for sending a message to your senator who they wanted you to communicate with -- I characterized it as no hands tweeting.

I am collecting tweets with Archivist, which they 'fixed' after the collection started. Once it would not gag on # doing the collecting got to be a lot easier.

There are notes from doing the work and thinking about what was going on.

There are three xml files; I hope that only two are needed. And there are 8 streamgraphs. Streamgraphs will surely increase. The names have date and time included.