 Welcome back to the BU News Services coverage here at the Zimmerman lab inside the College of Communications a full-scale production of midterm election coverage is underway with a close eye on social media and what Americans are saying on Twitter. We're trying to get a sense about whether if we measure how people are expressing their feelings in these tweets and draw from that whether they are for or against a particular candidate whether we might be able to learn from just social media from eavesdropping on social media which way the public is going to go in a particular election. Crimson Hexagon is a social media moderating software that tracks mentions engagements and impression keeping its hands on the pulse of America. It's kind of the first of its kind you know what I mean we're on Facebook live we're tracking with this software as Dean Schiedler explained we're tracking how voters are feeling about candidates and how voters are feeling about you know the big races and how much activity there is on social media. We could try and you know do some analysis and maybe tie it to the election results so this is all very experimental we're not really sure you know how it's going to work out but you know really excited to actually be able to try doing something like this. Here at BU News Service a group of about 20 faculty and students are using Patty Edge social media software to change this election and how future elections will be covered. I am Barry Reyes for BU News.