The Wisdom of Tweets?

Checck out Politweets ... this is a filter of the Twitter public "tweet" stream that shows and counts just the tweets that refer to the candidates in the US presidential race (if you are outside the US this probably looks like that wretched old cartoon "The Wacky Races"). As of writing (January 18th) the order of candidate popularity is:

1. Barack Obama
2. Hillary Clinton
3. John McCain
4. Mitt Romney
5. John Edwards
6. Ron Paul
7. Mike Huckabee
8. Rudy Giuliani
9. Dennis Kucinich
10. Fred Thompson
11. Mike Gravel
12. Bill Richardson

Interesting. I wonder if what we're seeing is the wisdom of crowds or simply Twitter static?

It would great if they had a chart showing day by day candidate tweets and even better if the tweets by candiadtes could be excluded. Even so, interesting idea.

The guys who created the site (they call themselves character140) also have another site that gets its data from Twitter, Twittertale. Twittertale looks for all tweets that contain any words on their dirty words list and lists the current top five words and the top five habitual offenders. Nice site design and good tag line "Twittertale / You kiss your momma with that mouth?"