I signed up for every presidential candidate's email list to see what happens. I hooked up a Gmail account to this Twitter handle, uploading all incoming emails to Dropbox.
Also, I used an email address variation that I can identify with every candidate. My plan is to watch how my email address gets bounced around to different parts of their campaigns. If anything, by the end of the election cycle, I'll have some interesting data points to play around with.
Another fun experiment would be to see how hard it is to unsubscribe.
I have found that some candidates do in fact unsubscribe you from the mailing list you are on... only to subscribe you to a different mailing list that they operate.
This is very interesting, and such a great idea. Doing a textual analysis of all the emails would be really interesting.
So far I have looked through almost all of the emails and its amazing how they word everything.
It seems that they love using the word "Friend". They also love using the word, "Chip" when they as for donations. Also marco robio is going with asking the citizens for a "Favor" and to donate $7 or more.
DerekH|10 years ago
I signed up for every presidential candidate's email list to see what happens. I hooked up a Gmail account to this Twitter handle, uploading all incoming emails to Dropbox.
Also, I used an email address variation that I can identify with every candidate. My plan is to watch how my email address gets bounced around to different parts of their campaigns. If anything, by the end of the election cycle, I'll have some interesting data points to play around with.
tjr|10 years ago
I have found that some candidates do in fact unsubscribe you from the mailing list you are on... only to subscribe you to a different mailing list that they operate.
caffeinewriter|10 years ago
jimkri|10 years ago
It seems that they love using the word "Friend". They also love using the word, "Chip" when they as for donations. Also marco robio is going with asking the citizens for a "Favor" and to donate $7 or more.
Pretty interesting stuff.