Congressman Joe Wilson

The president went to congress to deliver a defense of his health care plan. Republicans had a hard time being civil -- led by congressman Joe Wilson from South Carolina who shouted "you lie" at the president (Washington Post).

It quickly made it to YouTube, of course. You have to pay close attention to hear the shout, but it was there.

It made a big splash in the public domain that is micro blogging according to the figure from trendistic.com

Act Blue, a Democratic fund raising organization, reported that they had raised $400,000 to contribute to the Democratic opponent of Joe Wilson. The report came in at 3:15 September 10, 2009, which was the afternoon of the day after the president's speech.

I started Archivist collecting tweets about 24 hours after the president's speech, and messages were flying thick and fast. The first message of the first 1500 went back only as far as 9:12 p.m.

I was looking for Twingly Channels and found they do blog searches, and will embed the results of the search. So this is the result of that search. As of 12:13 a.m. September 11, 2009 they had found 3094 blog entries about Joe Wilson.

This is their micro blog search, but it does not seem to have the option of showing all. I did an rss subscribe for the browser, but it is only in this browser -- grrr, I need to learn.

On Tuesday, September 15, 2009, the House of Representatives voted to disapprove of Wilson, and there was another small spike in messages about Wilson.

The search stopped September 29, 2009 with 58,112 messages. The timeline was

The .txt file that can be read with Excel to acquire the data is: joe wilson.txt