I am currently working on adding data ingest to get data from Twitter from politicians (both US and worldwide) so that it gets archived and is easily accessible.
Would there be any interest from people if I created search tools to scan and search tweets from political figures?
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Would be great. How do you plan on creating the lists for each country? Maybe crowd-sourcing? And what level politicians would you be looking at?
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Great question. I think using crowd-sourcing would be the best method to quickly get a comprehensive list. I can personally start with U.S. politicians.
The level I would like to track would go all the way down to the county level. I'd definitely would want to get state ...
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legislature bodies, etc. (and whatever the equivalent would be for international political levels). So this is definitely something that crowd sourcing would help with. Do you have any recommendations?
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I’d personally suggest a GitHub repo but not sure IR people would want to send PRs and possibly you’d want them included. So, maybe a Wiki page where people can edit and you/all can track changes. I’d also draw quick hierarchical charts or create lists showing level of somewhat+
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completeness for each level so that peeps who want to contribute can make contributions without duplication. Also would make it easier to understand and/or compare cross-country levels. Lots of manual work. I can personally submit a British MPs list.