Twitter Robocall Tracker: Map of Robocalls
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This map is an unscientific survey of who is receiving robocalls and what those robocalls are saying. When you get a robocall fill out the Report A Robocall form. Through Twitter and the Twitter Robocall Tracking map, we can get a picture of the robocall strategies of different candidates.
The more robocalls we track, the more useful this map will be. You can help us reach more people by posting this this tweet in your Twitter stream.
Are you on Twitter? Did you get a robocall? Add your robocall to the http://robocall.twibune.com the Twitter Robocall Tracker and map.
Here's a link back to people who've linked to us.
Please blog about our project, write about our project, and mention our project on your broadcast medium.
How It Works:
The Twitter Robocall Tracker is a Web 2.0 mashup assembled entirely from Web 2.0 applications with open APIs.
All of the data collected by the Twitter Robocall Tracker is shared under Creative Commons. Feel free to embed the map in your own website.
Report the robocall you received using our Report A Robocall Form.
The form is a DabbleDB page. DabbleDB is a web based database with a visual interface for creating tables and forms.
Robocall reports are reviewed and checked for errors by @bigeasy and @endtherobocalls in the DabbleDB database.
The DabbleDB database is licensed under Creative Commons Share-Alike. You can export directly from DabbleDB to create a mashup of your own.
The DabbleDB database is imported into EditGrid. Using the EditGrid Macro API, each robocall entry zip code is geocoded using Google Geocoder API.
The EditGrid Macro API is all JavaScript, so it's famliar to web programmers. EditGrid is a great place to bring together multiple APIs because you have full JavaScript, network access with functions that perform GET and POST requests, and storage using EditGrid worksheets.
The EditGrid spreadsheet is shared into a KML formatted map.
EditGrid allows you to run XSLT scripts against an XML version of your spreadsheets. The output is available via a permalink. You can use to turn your spreadsheets into any XML format, including KML if your spreadsheet includes coordinates.
More About Us
Alan Gutierrez
@bigeasy - blogometer.comAlan Gutierrez is a software developer and a community organizer in his hometown of New Orleans, Louisiana. He collaborated with his sister Jeannette Gutierrez to create this mashup.
Jeannette Gutierrez
@tunieJeannette Gutierrez is a graphic designer living in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She collaborated with her brother Alan Gutierrez to create this mashup.
Shaun Dakin
@endtherobocalls - stoppoliticalcalls.orgCEO and Founder of Citizens for Civil Discourse, home of the National Political Do Not Contact Registry. He has been gathering robocall audio and transcripts for this election at his website.