League of Women Voters – AimsPoll https://www.aimspoll.com Set priorities for candidates and campaigns Fri, 20 Mar 2015 20:35:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 More Twitter Traction Metrics https://www.aimspoll.com/2015/03/20/more-twitter-traction-metrics/ Fri, 20 Mar 2015 19:48:49 +0000 https://www.aimspoll.com/?p=129 During the process of collecting Twitter metrics on the candidates, I started adding in comparisons of several voter-oriented online groups. It’s intriguing to see which folks put a lot of effort into tweeting, despite having relatively small numbers of followers. That’s why the traction metric is useful. Going for volume without enough traction risks wheel spinning.

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During the process of collecting Twitter metrics on the candidates, I started adding in comparisons of several voter-oriented online groups. It’s intriguing to see which folks put a lot of effort into tweeting, despite having relatively small numbers of followers. That’s why the traction metric is useful. Going for volume without enough traction risks wheel spinning.

OrganizationHandleFollowersTweetsVolumeTraction
NationalPopularVote@NatlPopularVote573501.63
ReThink Democracy@ReThinkDemocrcy902571050.16
Votenet@votenet108152412.06
Votetocracy@votetocracy114337300430.03
DemocracyLab@DemocracyLab133914409.30
Vote411@VOTE4111815491990.37
Intellitics@intellitics1893412280.46
iCitizen@iCitizen22747271170.31
WhyTuesday@WhyTuesday34247264250.47
Fairvote@fairvote36727647280.48
VoteSmart@VoteSmart48204301211.12
The GovLab@TheGovLab66201859123.56
League of Women Voters@LWV9304170001580.55
CrowdPac@Crowdpac94641233127.68
Nat. Inst. on Civic Discourse@NICDInstitute94982310224.11
Center for Civic Media@civicMIT102006146631.66
WolfPAC@WolfPAChq134004280573.13
Impact Democracy@ImpactDemocracy1420081771161.74
Citizens United@Citizens_United1430096771381.48
OpenCongress@OpenCongress154003737584.12
Common Cause@CommonCause18300133002431.38
New America Foundation@NewAmerica21800170003711.28
Ballotpedia@ballotpedia22000121002661.82
Peterson Foundation@pgpfoundation2410015173715.89
National Urban League@NatUrbanLeague3710088803294.18
American Enterprise Institute@AEI439003120013701.41
Center for American Progress@amprog48400153007413.16
FactCheck.org@factcheckdotorg68800381826318.02
NAACP@NAACP934001140010658.19
No Labels@NoLabelsOrg12900012300158710.49
Moveon@MoveOn1320001420018749.30
NRA News@nranews1450002270032926.39
National Rifle Association@NRA2660006265166642.46
RNC@GOP33300021000699315.86
Lawrence Lessig@lessig3340008741291938.21
DNC@TheDemocrats36400014000509626.00
Heritage Foundation@Heritage486000464002255010.47
Greenpeace@Greenpeace1290000242003121853.31

Selected Public Interest Organizations, March 2013

Volume = (Followers * Tweets) / 1,000,000.
Traction = Followers / Tweets.
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