Yeah, it's a tough call. If we slow it down, we'd have to show fewer as the underlying stream is zipping by. We considered pause or pause-on-hover, but sort of assume people will glance at it, not stare at it, if that makes sense. Gestalt, not reading?

Nice! But on a netbook if I reduce the font to try to get both the Democrip and Rebloodlican halves on the screen, the Rebloodlican side just disappears.

Fellow Votizen dev.

I agree about the white flash. We decided to give nvd3 a try for charts, and it does that as part of its default animation. We'll probably disable animations or figure out some way to keep redraws from flashing like that.

I removed the on-update flash.

Good ideas, all. There are a couple more debates. :-)

In the meantime, if you want to play with filters, feel free to try this super-alpha toy I threw together the other day: https://www.votizen.com/twitter-fight/. It works on a rolling 24-hour window of Romney- or Obama-mentioning tweets. Buggy as heck, but fun to play with!