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Ballotpedia & Twitter Team Up to Identify 2018 Candidates
Contact: Kristen Vonasek, Director of Communications
Tel: (608) 255-0688
E-mail: Media@ballotpedia.org
Twitter partners with Ballotpedia to launch new U.S. election labels
Middleton, Wis. - May 23, 2018: Today, Twitter announced a new feature rolling out to candidate profiles next week: U.S. election labels. Ballotpedia’s election team will be providing Twitter with the data to identify general election candidates who will appear on the ballot in gubernatorial and Congressional races this November.
These new Twitter labels include the office the candidate is seeking, the state where the office is located, and a small icon of a government building. They will appear on tweets and profile pages of political candidates in select races.
Ballotpedia covers all candidates in every upcoming election occurring within the 100 most-populated cities in the U.S., plus all federal and statewide elections, including ballot measures. After each state primary, Ballotpedia will provide Twitter with information on gubernatorial and Congressional candidates who will appear on the November ballot. After receiving consent from each candidate, Twitter will apply the labels to each candidate profile.
“Our team is excited to have the opportunity to help Twitter users accurately identify the candidates in their upcoming elections,” said Geoff Pallay, Ballotpedia’s Editor-in-Chief. “We’re thrilled to be able to partner with Twitter and expand the reach of Ballotpedia’s enormous dataset. We believe high-quality data and information is essential to a thriving and healthy political process. To feel confident, readers need to trust the content they consume.”
Twitter users can look for these labels starting May 30.
About Ballotpedia
Ballotpedia is the online encyclopedia of American politics and elections. Its goal is to preserve and expand knowledge about politics by providing exceptionally high-quality, accurate, and objective information about local, state, and federal politics and policies. Its content includes neutral, accurate, and verifiable information on government officials and the offices they hold, political issues and public policy, elections, candidates, and the influencers of politics. Headquartered in Middleton, Wisconsin, Ballotpedia was founded in 2006. It has grown to include over 275,000 professionally authored encyclopedic articles that have garnered over 1 billion page views.
If you’d like more information, or to schedule an interview, please contact Ballotpedia's Director of Communications at media@Ballotpedia.org.
