When we launched We the
People, none of us knew how popular it would be, but it's exceeded our
wildest expectations. Through the past year, interest in We the People exploded
and we're closing in on 10 million signatures.
When we first raised the threshold — from 5,000 to 25,000 — we called it "a
good problem to have." Turns out that "good problem" is only getting better,
so we're making another adjustment to ensure we’re able to continue to give the
most popular ideas the time they deserve.
Starting today, as we move into a second term, petitions must receive 100,000
signatures in 30 days in order to receive an official response from the Obama
Administration. This new threshold applies only to petitions created from this
point forward and is not retroactively applied to ones that already exist.
In the last two months of 2012, use of We the People more than doubled. In
just that time roughly 2.4 million new users joined the system, 73,000 petitions
were created and 4.9 million signatures were registered.
As we’ve seen overall use skyrocket, more petitions are crossing the
threshold — and doing so much more quickly.
In the first 10 months of 2012, it took an average of 18 days for a new
petition to cross the 25,000-signature threshold. In the last two months of the
year, that average time was cut in half to just 9 days, and most petitions that
crossed the threshold collected 25,000 signatures within five days of their
creation. More than 60 percent of the petitions to cross threshold in all of
2012 did so in the last two months of the year.
It's wonderful to see so many people using We the People to add their voices
to important policy debates here in Washington and bring attention to issues
that might not get the attention they deserve. This increasing adoption
strengthens our resolve to build new features, including an API that would allow
other popular online petition platforms to integrate with our official one. To
that end we’ve
released the source code to We the People and would love to connect with any
enterprising engineers who want to help out.
Here’s a quick overview:
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