I love the whole concept and execution, except I think the tweets should scroll by slightly slower, as sometimes you don't have time to read a tweet before it disappears.

Yeah, it's a tough call. If we slow it down, we'd have to show fewer as the underlying stream is zipping by. We considered pause or pause-on-hover, but sort of assume people will glance at it, not stare at it, if that makes sense. Gestalt, not reading?

Nice! But on a netbook if I reduce the font to try to get both the Democrip and Rebloodlican halves on the screen, the Rebloodlican side just disappears.

This is clever and I find it highly entertaining to read all of the trolls and flamebait. The white flash when the graphs update is extremely irritating to me.

Fellow Votizen dev.

I agree about the white flash. We decided to give nvd3 a try for charts, and it does that as part of its default animation. We'll probably disable animations or figure out some way to keep redraws from flashing like that.

Whoops, no, I did the flash to give a pulse impression. The transition is unavoidable, but I did the opacity animation on purpose. :)

Add this to the CSS:

div.chart {opacity: 1 !important;}

It is a hack but should work.

I removed the on-update flash.

Also, filtering options would be great, for example only viewing tweets from independents, or only ones that mention Romney.

Good ideas, all. There are a couple more debates. :-)

In the meantime, if you want to play with filters, feel free to try this super-alpha toy I threw together the other day: https://www.votizen.com/twitter-fight/. It works on a rolling 24-hour window of Romney- or Obama-mentioning tweets. Buggy as heck, but fun to play with!

I was wondering what the time window is for the "voters are saying" bar charts. Seemed too long and static... wish those charts were more dynamic.

It is cumulative. I think I agree with you, though. I'll think about how to do rolling for the next debate (Oct 11.)

I like the idea and the execution, I hate reading the quality of the tweets. I try not to be a snob, but yikes.