The lengths some people will go to for David Cameron....

Where else could you get such facts as....

David Cameron can get a McDonalds breakfast at 10.31am.
David Cameron can type 141 characters into twitter, but chooses not to.
David Cameron can win a game of Connect Four in only three moves.

Yes - that's right people - it's the now notorious @Davefacts, the API feed managed by David Cameron Facts. This is truely one of the best new political sites I have ever seen!


So how much do those behind DaveFacts really love Cameron?
You want me say that I have Maggie wallpaper and a David Cameron duvet cover don't you! I am not quite that bad, although I was given a Maggie T nutcracker as a Christmas gift this year! The truth is that David Cameron is a charismatic guy and he fits perfectly with a site like ours. It just wouldn't fit with Nicky C and the other chap.

And they're right. There were some vain attempts on twitter to start feeds of facts relating to Gordon Brown or Nick Clegg. They just didnt have the fervour that Dave inspires in his followers.

I have made no secret of the fact that I am a Tory fan but the main emphasis was simply having a bit of fun during a time that is going to be saturated with heavy political stories, i.e. the Election. The site is only just over a week old and it has spread virally better than we could have ever expected so if I am honest I think our motivation has moved slightly to try and make the site get mainstream attention, whilst still having a bit of a giggle.

One interesting and surprising reaction to DaveFacts came from the Labour party. Even in their dreams, Gordon eats cold porridge. So some Labour tweeters and bloggers, led by @Conorpope have started a very negative #REALDaveFacts tag. Even some Labour MPs are trying their luck. So what does DaveFacts feel about this?

I must admit that I have been taken aback a little by some of the hate mail, but the beautiful thing about political satire is that the nasty comments are written in such a posh and intelligent way that it makes me kind of like it. I love that Labour luvvies are trying to counter our tiny little site with their own negative hashtags rather than trying to come up with their own, stand alone funny campaigns. It is mad that they would feel the need to do this. I will leave far deeper thinkers than myself to contemplate the theory behind Labour attacking Cameron rather than bigging up their own man, I just find it funny.

But by and large the reaction has been very positive. Even @TimMongomerie, editor of ConservativeHome, has said that “Tweets from @davefacts makes @Conservatives look disloyal”. What does DaveFacts think of such admiration?

I am going to be brutally honest here and admit we were not ready for the site launch. We were testing the Twitter API and setting up the Twitter account when it just seemed to go mad over night. This has meant some frantic evenings spent trying to get things in place to stop it falling over. Our first weekend, just gone, saw the site getting over 3500 unique visitors a day and this is from Twitter alone. We have not done any wider promotion yet and have quite a few nice ideas in the pipeline to help it go mainstream.

Not bad at all, even compared to the negative campaigining of the mydavecameron website. And to the future- what does DaveFacts have in development stages? Or are they quite happy leaving it as it is: the API Twitter feed of hilarity!

We are pretty much playing it by ear and developing new widgets as people request them, such as the Dave Facts widget that you can now put on your blog. As is the way with Twitter, no one misses an opportunity to monetise a site and we have been inundated with offers from merchandise companies offering to sell David Cameron Fact related goodies and we may look at this alongside an idea we already had to make it mainstream. It is still really early though and to be honest, the web moves so quickly that we may be forgotten by tomorrow so lets just enjoy it whilst it lasts.

Hopefully some day we will discover who this bunch of brave and loyal fanatics are! In the meantime, lets do as they say and enjoy. Dont take it too seriously Labourites - maybe one day eh?

Oh just one more then:
David Cameron was waiting for Edmund Hilary with a hot mug of tea on the top of Everest

*UPDATE* You can now become a fan of DaveFacts on Facebook