FAQ

Q: What is this site all about?
A: Twitelect.com is a twitter trending site. All it does is search twitter for 2010 election related content pertaining to candidates for office of the President, Vice President and Senators of the Philippines. This is purely IN

Q: Does any voting happen on site?
A: NO. The graph and posts you see here are from Twitter.com. Our bots constantly check twitter for updates.

Q: Do we endorse any candidate?
A: No. This site is neutral and only collates twitter chatter.

Q: Do you Accept sponsorship or Ads?
A: No. We do not accept sponsorship or Ads.

Q: How often are the posts and counts updated.
A: Twitelect scans twitter real time but posts updates only every hour.

Q: Why is 7 day overview different from Twitelect Rank?
A: The 7 day overview only contains information on tweets for the last 7 days, The Twitelect Rank contains total posts on twitter since november 18, 2009

Q: How do I check the Top Tweets per candidate?
A: On graph you will see a view feed under the specific candidate, click on that and the live feed appears below and the top twitelecters are placed on the right column.

Q: What are Twitelecters?
A: Twitelecters are the people that post election related content on twitter.

Q: Why dont I see my post?
A: There are several reasons. The Live Feed only contains the last 20 posts on twitter for the candidate. If you flood or spam twitter you are automatically flagged as spam and your posts wil not appear here.

Q: Are all the Posts Pro or Against the candidate?
A: We are working to streamline to define the positive and negative comments, for now you will have to sift thru the posts.

Q: Why does it results here differ from actual online polls?
A: This is not a poll, this is just a twitter trending site. It is based on actual posts of twitter users. This is a metric to see who is talking about who on twitter. Currently we are just talking about volume of tweets.

Q: Why dont i see my candidate listed?
A: If your candidate isnt listed and would like to request inclusion please send us an email by clicking on report a bug on right column under top twitelecters. We have limited the number of canidates because there are just too

Q: Could we embed the graph on our site?
A: YES. it is free to embed but we advise you put a disclaimer that this isnt a POLL just a twitter trend to see who is talking about who in the 2010 elections.

Q: Can I make my own comparison?
A: YES. you can go to the popularity page and compare your brand1 vs brand2.

Q: Why are the results not consistent?
A: There may be several factors that affect consistency. Load on severs on twitter, load on server on twitelect.com can affect the results. A slow connection can also cut some data from being received. The best is to see the tr

Q: What does Digg a Twitellecter do?
A: When you Digg a twitellecter, you literally dig for election related posts done by the specific twitter user. It will list all post by that user.

Q: What does Upload a photo on Twitter do?
A: Twitelect.com gives you the ability to post photos straight to your account on Twitter.com

Q: Is this site finished 100%
A: NO. This site is constantly checked and refined to give quality output. We find ways to fix the bugs that we find.

Q: How does the +Positive or -negative rating work?
A: To add POSITIVE Ratings use #WIN, #FTW, and to give NEGATIVE Ratings use #FAIL, #LOSER Hashtags with your tweet.

Q: Can we vote for our Candidate?
A: No. we just count the number of times they are talked about on twitter.

Q: How many people are on Twitter.com?
A: According to Jim Ayson - http://bit.ly/2DqO6G we have around 1.1M users not counting the people that use twitter API

Q: Why are all the names not listed or counted?
A: We are finding ways to determine the proper way to count it correctly, not all first names are counted since Manny Pacquiao twits could spill over to Manny Villar. etc.. if you have an idea how to extract better data please d