It's not as if politics and Twitter are new to each other, but it probably hasn't ever looked this nice. Politweets keeps pulse on where the buzz is in politics, specifically this year's election and the candidates involved.

As tweets flit back and forth among the people of Twitter, Politweets scoops out the tweets that contain the name of candidates and throws them up: to the left for Democrats, to the right for Republicans. It then tallies the scores and stacks the candidates down the middle in order of who's talked about the most. Obviously, it doesn't value the tweets in regards to whether it speaks of a candidate in a good or bad light - only if the name comes up at all.

Politweets is another nice example of what is possible with Twitter - and certainly more interesting than Foamee. Now if there was only a way to track custom terms on Twitter and have them ranked for you...

[via Mashable]