The 2008 US presidential election is arguably the first presidential election highly influenced by social media. Now it seems natural that social media heavily influences elections, but it was not always that way. With major platforms like Twitter and Facebook being founded in 2006 and 2004 respectively, people started to become more and more connected. Ideas and beliefs are shared instantly. I decided to scrape Twitter from January 1st 2008 until November 4th 2008 with relevant keywords. I wanted to explore the trends present with relation to the election cycle.