Via Mashable we learn about a nifty little website called Politweets.

Following Twitter's uber-simple style, the site merely searches all tweets (through Twitter's API) for keywords like "McCain" and "Obama" and places them on the left or right-hand side of the site. The middle column weights the respective candidates based on how much they're being discussed.

Simple. Interesting. And it works. I like.

Mashable had this interesting nugget worth highlighting:

...projects like Politweets do show the beauty of Twitter maintaining a very simple service with an Open API that allows others to build applications and businesses around the core functionality of the site. However, it would seem like topical pages built around major current events could further help the site expand outside its core user base of techies, in addition to the potential monetary benefits.

My mind is racing.

Check out Politweets and let me know what you think.