Number of likes of Mitt Romney on Facebook decreasing constantly

Number of likes of Mitt Romney on Facebook decreasing constantly(private.woutervdb.com)

10 points by bashzor 13 years ago | 15 comments

ppetty 13 years ago |

Is that surprising? I'd imagine the loser in every state's gubernatorial race is also trending down on Facebook. McCain? All washed up on Facebook, too, right?

ojiikun 13 years ago | |

I don't think it's surprising, but to watch the actual data change in real-time is fascinating. We're entering the era of real-time, fine-grained, high-scale opinon metrics like never before.

meatsock 13 years ago | |

so create two index "funds", "avg number of likes of people who just lost an election" and "avg number of likes of GOP" and see if the former post-loss delta is more or less than the overall delta of the latter. i suspect that recently losing an election has a greater effect.

ojiikun 13 years ago |

I actually love the idea of this tool in general. Would be neat to open it up where you can just paste in the URL of any FB page and get the counter/deltas!

I'd also suggest adding a cumulative delta counter, rather than just the delta per poll. That way I can load up the page and come back an hour later and get an even better feel for the changes. Maybe also add a rate (delta/hour) field?

Awesome work!

woutervdb 13 years ago | |

Thanks! Glad to hear! Tonight (or at least the past couple of hours) was very stressful because the site was posted on HackerNews. You see, I'm hosting it on a Raspberry Pi so I had to work really hard to get the thing running smooth again...

Also, thanks for the suggestions! I may implement them sooner or later, I've got a lot of other projects to do...

captn3m0 13 years ago |

http://www.edgekick.com/fb/mittromney shows some pretty graphs for the decay.

pella 13 years ago |

at the moment:

Likes for Obama : 33.203.746

http://private.woutervdb.com/obama/

Likes for Romney : 12.053.114

http://private.woutervdb.com/romney/

woutervdb 13 years ago |

Server is getting hotter and hotter, internet connection is getting slower and slower...

PanMan 13 years ago | |

Why are you going via your server? Couldn't you have the JS get the data from Facebook's Graph API directly?

dpritchett 13 years ago | | |

Yep, this page handled entirely client-side, with some analytics JS on top for good measure:

    setInterval(
      function() {
        $.getJSON(
          "https://graph.facebook.com/mittromney",
          function(results) {
            console.log("Mitt Romney Like Count: " + results.likes)})},
      5000)

Edit: Love the idea, glad the page is out there! Great conversation starter.

woutervdb 13 years ago | | |

I wasn't expecting this much traffic, so I didn't really care about server performance because it was irrelevant. I only posted it to my Facebook and Twitter, and now it has around 25 likes, I've been twittered by a guy with 4K followers and someone appears to have bloggd me. It's awesome, but very hard to keep it online. I may implement client-side JS in the near future. Thanks for the suggestions!

kentbrew 13 years ago |

Here, this won't hurt the Internet as much: http://kentbrewster.com/who-likes-mitt/

bashzor 13 years ago |

setInterval( function() { $.getJSON( "https://graph.facebook.com/mittromney", function(results) { console.log("Mitt Romney Like Count: " + results.likes)})}, 5000)