The hashtag #uniteblue and its associated web site, http://uniteblue.com, has galvanized a lot of liberal discussion on Twitter.  It’s an incredibly clever way to not only coordinate messaging but a way to increase the clout (and, of course, Klout) of liberal Twitter users.  If you haven’t looked into it yet, do so right now.  I’ll wait.  There’s so much more to it than what I’ve just described.

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So what kind of impact has Unite Blue had on Twitter? In the last week, the volume of messages tagged with #UniteBlue is pretty amazing:

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What’s especially amazing is the consistently high number of “new” tweets — that is, updates that are neither retweets or replies but are original compositions.  That level of creative activity is very high for Twitter.

Some people are very active on the hashtag. The top 10 users of the tag are:

Clearly there’s a dedicated group of people using the tag.

But even so, the number of duplicative tweets (usually, but not always, retweets) is comparably small: 

It will be interesting to see how far the group can go and how high its volume of tweets will grow.  So far, it’s been amazing.  I haven’t seen any other interest group organize this well on Twitter…