Tweetminster is a media platform that helps people and organisations discover the most relevant content and insight around their personal and professional interests. We analyse, organise and amplify the trends and links that networks of experts, around any topic, industry or market, are paying attention to.
Launched in 2008 around UK politics and current affairs, Tweetminster now works with clients and partners around many different topics, industries and markets.
Tweetminster.co.uk remains focussed on UK politics and current affairs, both as a showcase for some of our technology and as a public service - we're passionate about making politics more open, social and engaging.
The layout, categorisation and size of the stories on the pages of this website are controlled by data. There is no human or editorial intervention – this is what politicians, civil servants, activists, academics, business analysts and journalists think is the most important news of the day. Our goal is to provide you with one website bringing together the best quality news content from websites, blogs and social media in one simple to use news platform. We’re optimised for the web, tablets and smart phones to keep you connected wherever you are - live and updated in real time, 24/7.
Beyond UK politics, Tweetminster works with clients to bring our methodology to any topic, industry or market.
Everything we do is powered by data and provided in feeds - for top stories, multimedia content, sources, trends, influencers and location. Tweetminster's feeds can power websites and apps, and integrate into private monitoring tools and services, and we can even help you make sense of data through insight reports.
Our goal is to help you discover what is important and provide insight into the news, trends and people that are shaping the issues you care about.
Many services tell you what's popular, Tweetminster tells you what matters.
To get in touch, tweet us, @tweetminster, or drop us an email at wire at tweetminster.co.uk
Tweetminster started out as a phone call between co-founders Alberto Nardelli and Andrew Walker in December 2008… 24 hours later the first version was live. Since then we’ve followed an agile development path and deployed new versions, better tools and more advanced technology to track networks, discover content, mine opinion and deliver insight into the world of online politics. Here’s the team who made this happen:
Alberto Nardelli
@AlbertoNardelli
Alberto is the Co-founder and CEO. Together with Andrew, he is responsible for setting and communicating the overall direction for the company and product.
Alberto has worked within the social media space for the past 10 years, in the UK and internationally, at UnLtdWorld.com, TIGweb.org, cafebabel.com, the City of Rome and on the United Nations World Summit on the Information Society.
Alberto has made numerous media appearances and spoken at dozens of events. He holds an MA in Media and Communication Studies and a BA in Political Science. He loves politics, food, football, fashion and film.
Andrew Walker
@Killdozer
Andrew is the Co-founder and CIO (Chief Innovation Officer). Andrew’s role is focused on developing the Tweetminster technology platform into the next generation of social news products.
He has worked as an interactive, games and web designer & developer since 1995. Co-founding creative technology agency Thin Martian with Bradley Martin and James Clarke, he has spent years creating products and campaigns and social media presences for online brands like Microsoft, Vodafone, Xbox and BSkyB.
A keen advocate of technology, he is a co-investor in social media music data start-up MusicMetric along with Brad and James. Andrew has an MA (hons) in Politics, a PgDip in multimedia technologies and loves old technology, type and trying to live a greener life in rural Suffolk.
Misja Hoebe
@misja
Misja is the CTO and technical lead developer for Tweetminster, responsible for converting the continuous flow of data into information that makes sense.
He holds an MA in Educational Sciences and has worked for a number of years in higher education as a technologist on various eLearning, teacher training and policy development projects. After this he became involved in online social media at Elgg.org, UnLtdWorld.com and then Tweetminster.
He loves music, data crunching and tough problems in general, and lives and works in the beautiful city of Groningen, the Netherlands.
Bradley Martin
@gitfinger
Brad provides operational, financial and legal support for Tweetminster. Forming part of Tweetminster's team of roving reporters, he also contributes to marketing and PR activity at political events and conferences. This has provided an opportunity to interview politicians, influencers and people as diverse as Nick Robinson, Alistair Darling, Danny Alexander and Fergal Sharkey. While the software mines opinion from the data, Brad is mining opinion face to face!
Additional to Tweetminster, Brad is Co-Founder of digital creative agency Thin Martian and co-investor in MusicMetric.
Prior to this, he spent five years as Design Lead at World Careers Network and gained a BA (Hons) Degree in Visual Communication from the University of East London.
Ming Liu
@goldenchild128
Ming's role at Tweetminster has been to drive forward the design, brand and front end development, working alongside Andrew to directing all creative content. Beyond the site and the app, he has contributed to assets such as Tweetminster's infographic marking 100 days of the Coalition Government which received heavy media coverage.
Ming has a business degree and an MA in Interactive Multimedia from the University of Edinburgh. He is also Creative Director of creative technology agency Thin Martian in Shoreditch.
James Clarke
@ginjam
James has contributed to Tweetminster's ‘on the ground’ reporting team at party conferences interviewing high ranking statesmen such as Ed Miliband and Ed Balls.
As co-founder of Thin Martian and previously as Lead Designer for MSN EMEA, James has gained fifteen years experience as a digital designer focussed on user interface design, branding, graphic design, data visualisation, ad creation and online campaign mechanics.
Additionally, he has recently completed a year as CEO of MusicMetric, which he led from an early stage business towards successfully raising venture finance.
He holds a BA Hons in Graphic Design and interests include playing the guitar, food, bikes, football, typography, and design.
