Wait Times Visualized: Check Out Plodt’s Plotting
Our partner Plodt is a rather new Twitter visualization service. They’ve been whipping up some intriguing charting of wait times across the country, pulling from the stream of Twitter Vote Report data. At present, there are only a handful of data points in any one location, so the information should be taken with a grain of salt.
That said, even at this early stage it’s fascinating to comb through Plodt’s early chartings, including places like Holladay, Utah, where a report came in of a 200 minute wait. Lest you think that the good folks at Plodt wasted time building a page for Holladay — which I’m sure is a lovely place but isn’t really one of your election hot spots — a rather neat feature is that city and state pages are created on the fly. If someone tweets a tweet market "votereport" from any spot in the country, then bam!, a Plodt page is created for it.
Keep an eye on Plodt. They’re going to be, I suspect, some of the more interesting visualizations that come out of Twitter Vote Report.
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