TweetMinster launches a Social Bloomberg for UK Politics
TweetMinster.co.uk, the service that allows people to follow MPs and UK politics using Twitter, has today announced the release of a new desktop application, the “TweetMinster Wire”, which will let people track, follow and engage around UK politics in real time by using the power of Twitter.
London April 7th 2009 – TweetMinster, www.tweetminster.co.uk, a service that promotes better communications between voters and Members of Parliament, has today released a new desktop application called the TweetMinster Wire that will let people track, follow and engage around UK politics and the issues that matter in real time by using the power of Twitter directly from their desktop.
The TweetMinster Wire pulls together politically relevant conversations from Twitter and allows people to follow and access the Twitter streams of:
Members of Parliament
Prospective Parliamentary Candidates
All major parties
Parliament and Government Departments
Downing Street
Relevant conversations – TweetMinster’s secret sauce to capture content of relevance.
The TweetMinster Wire acts as a Twitter client letting people participate within these conversations and also to post, reply and direct message friends and followers, and thereby aims to foster a community around UK politics.
The application also integrates TweetMinster Search allowing people to search through the conversations of politicians and filter these by party and politician, and includes a tool to compare the occurrence of topics and trends overtime within a dynamic graph. And by using the Guardian’s recently launched Open Platform API context is added to the graphs by accompanying tracked topics with news. For example users will be able to see why a topic peaked on a specific day by seeing its references within those days’ articles.
Alberto Nardelli, Co-founder of TweetMinster said,
“We’re truly excited to be launching the TweetMinster Wire today. By using the power of Twitter the application aims to foster an unprecedented community around politics in the UK and at the same time provides professionals and politicians with tools to engage, track and analyze political conversations in real time. You can think of it as a “social Bloomberg for UK politics” that aims to improve political communications by empowering voters, politicians and professionals that operate in the sector.”
TweetMinster also announced that it will soon release a series of premium services for the Wire alongside ongoing enhancements.
The TweetMinster Wire is free and can be downloaded at: www.tweetminster.co.uk