April 2013
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Over one million people follow MPs on Twitter
1,224,902 people follow MPs on Twitter.
The most followed party (with the most followed MPs) is the Conservatives whose MPs are followed by 637,338 people. Labour follows with 576,304 people, and the Liberal Democrats with 200,176 people.
These are all unique figures/followers - total number of people (cleansed of duplicates). A simple sum of all MPs’ followers, not excluding duplicates,...
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A new electionista.com
Last week we announced V2 of electionista pro. Today, we’re delighted to release the latest update of electionista.com:
- a beautiful new interface
- photos and videos most shared by politicians and political media around the world
- a markets channel (simply type markets in the search bar) to see the latest relevant tweets and most shared content by financial experts and influencers...
New channels on electionista pro
Last week we released V2 of electionista pro. Today we rolled out two new channels:
1) Markets - following the financial community globally on Twitter and filtering their tweets by over 3000 queries covering all equities, commodities, bonds, currencies and local markets.
2) UK Local - following all local councillors, local authorities and local and regional press in the UK.
Both channels of...
March 2013
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Introducing electionista pro V2
We’re delighted to announce the release of V2 of electionista pro.
electionista is the only service in the world that follows politics, elections and political trends on Twitter globally, in over 100 countries and more than 50 languages. All the world’s politicians, governments, media and top commentators on one platform.
The latest version includes:
- a beautiful new tabbed...
January 2013
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A Guide to #Italy2013 Coalitions on Twitter
By Saturday January 13 coalitions, manifestos and coalitions need to be finalised ahead of Italy’s general election (February 24-25).
Here is a brief guide to the coalitions’ (as they currently stand) Twitter’s presence:
Centre-left
Coalition leader: @pbersani
Parties/lists: @pdnetwork, @sinistraelib, @CentroDemDirLib, @PartSocialista
Party/list leaders: @NichiVendola,...
December 2012
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How UK MPs Tweeted in 2012?
Here is our 2012 round up of UK MPs’ activity on Twitter.
There are now 414 MPs on Twitter. You can find and follow the full list here and our lists page also includes lists by party.
10 Most Followed MPs on Twitter:
@David_Cameron - 192458 followers
@Ed_Miliband - 182397
@WilliamJHague - 119159
@DMiliband - 109136
@tom_watson - 108386
@georgegalloway - 101996
@nick_clegg -...
November 2012
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Announcing electionista for Windows 8
Following on from the great reception for our global election dashboard electionista.com we’ve launched the electionista app for Windows 8. It’s built for laptops, the new generation of Win8 phones and, of course, the new Surface tablet and all touch screen Windows 8 Devices.
electionista is unique because it’s the only app that tracks every politician and all political media...
How the Middle East Tweets
Here is our latest visualisation for Portland Communications - it maps the most connected political Twitter users in the Middle East. You can read more about it, and find visuals per country over at the Portland blog.
The electionista Guide to the US Election
Here is electionista’s brief guide to the US presidential election.
Over 100 million Americans will vote. Polls close at different times across the country with Kentucky and Indiana the first to close at 2300 GMT and Alaska the last at 0500 GMT (on Wednesday).
Poll closing times in key states:
Virgina 0000 GMT
North Carolina 0030 GMT
Ohio 0030 GMT
Florida 0100 GMT
New Hampshire 0100...
September 2012
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A brief guide to elections in Georgia
On October 1, Georgia heads to the polls to elect a new parliament. Here is @electionista’s brief guide to following the election.
Number of registered voters: 3,613,851 - the highest in 20 years.
The Georgian parliament has 150 members elected for a four-year term using a mixed system - 73 MPs are elected via a majoritarian system, 77 seats are allocated proportionately. There is a 5%...
August 2012
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A guide to the Netherlands General Election
A general election will be held in the Netherlands on 12 September 2012 following the fall of the government led by PM Mark Rutte (VVD) in April.
We have put together a brief guide to the election and how you can use electionista to follow it.
The Dutch parliament has 150 seats (76 are needed for a majority and to form a viable coalition) and these will be contested using proportional...
Coming soon: the electionista API - signup today.
electionista covers politics and elections in over 125 countries and 58 languages, bringing together the Twitter accounts of politicians, media, government departments and political journalists and commentators.
Our goal is to connect people to the world’s politics and elections - to make politics and elections more open, to improve how voters discover political news and engage with elected...
July 2012
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Working with the BBC World Service on #London2012...
We’re delighted to be working with the @BBCworldservice on their #London2012 coverage in seven different languages - Portuguese, Arabic, Russian, Hausa, Turkish, Hindi & Spanish.
We’ll be bringing together the most relevant Twitter accounts (athletes, Olympic sport organisations and sports journalists), their Tweets, most shared links and trends to BBC World Service pages for each...
June 2012
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Follow electionista in 114 countries in your own...
electionista follows politics and elections on Twitter in 114 countries, bringing together over 15,000 accounts of politicians, governments and politics media in more than 55 languages.
Our initial goal was to help people connect with politics in their countries, we believe there is great value in following news on the ground. Connecting with the opinion and commentary of those living events in...
Where do MPs get their news?
“Influence” isn’t just about size and the number of followers one has. Who follows whom, relevancy and context are just as important, if not more. With this in mind we thought it would be interesting to have a look at which journalists and media accounts on Twitter do MPs most follow - who do MPs pay attention to the most within UK media?
Here are the 20 UK journalists most...
Covering the Egyptian election with BBC Arabic
We’re delighted to be working with BBC Arabic in using the electionista API as part of their coverage of the Egyptian election, bringing together all the Tweets of key accounts, the links they’re sharing most and trends all in one page - you can check it out here.
With electionista we’re now covering 111 countries and 58 languages, following all the Tweets from politicians,...
May 2012
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The most followed Government departments by MPs
Here’s a look at the top-20 government departments most followed by MPs*:
Number 10 - followed by 184 MPs
HM Treasury - 142
Foreign Office - 63
BIS - 43
Communities UK - 41
Cabinet Office - 39
Home Office - 31
DirectGov - 29
MoD - 27
DCMS - 25
Education - 24
DECC - 23
Transport - 23
DEFRA - 22
Health - 21
DPM’s Office - 20
UKTI - 17
MoJ - 14
...
Tweetminster now available on iPad
Today we updated our iPhone app with new channels and lots more, and also released an iPad version.
The app brings together the top links shared by experts and influencers in several current affairs verticals, ranging from Europe and economy to oil, China and Russia; the top links shared by MPs, politics journalists and UK government departments; relevant tweets for all the channels; and trends...
March 2012
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From four MPs to all the world's elections
Yesterday we released electionista, a platform to follow all the world’s elections and politics. When we first launched Tweetminster back in December 2008, there were only four MPs on Twitter. There are now 335 MPs on Twitter - a majority.
We thought it would be neat to look back at the past three years at some of the various projects and experiments Tweetminster has worked on as we believe...
Follow all the world's elections and politics
When we launched Tweetminster in December 2008 there were only four MPs on Twitter. There are now more than 330 - a majority. Twitter is making the world more open, and people and information better connected - transforming how many connect and organise, and how political information and news flows, is shared and amplified.
In 2012 there will be elections in 59 countries around the world, 26 of...
January 2012
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The majority of UK MPs are now on Twitter
330. You can follow them all on this list - @tweetminster/ukmps . On our lists page you can also find MPs listed by party, while here on our site you can search for MPs by constituency to find out if your MP is on Twitter.
When we launched Tweetminster back in December 2008, there were only four MPs using Twitter.
December 2011
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A year of tweeting MPs
When Tweetminster launched in December 2008 there were four MPs on Twitter. As we approach our third birthday, here is a look at how the political landscape on Twitter has evolved over the past 12 months.
At the beginning of the year there were 234 MPs on Twitter. There are now 315. On our lists page you can find lists by party.
The 5 most followed MPs are:
@Ed_Miliband
@DMiliband
...
November 2011
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What British media use to send their Tweets.
Yesterday we launched a “Newstweet Index” with @PortlandComms that aims to analyse on a quarterly basis how British media uses Twitter - what media organisations and journalists tweet about, how often they tweet and who leads the conversations around news (i.e. who do people pay attention to the most).
As part of our analysis we also looked at what media organisations and journalists...
October 2011
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300!
When we launched Tweetminster at the end of 2008 there were four MPs on Twitter. There are now over 300. 305 to be precise, or about 47% of all MPs.
You can find and follow them all on our Lists page on Twitter, where you can also find lists for MPs filtered by party and lots more.
Announcing a partnership with Storyful
Storyful, the social media news agency, and @Tweetminster, the media platform that uses data to curate news, trends and opinion have announced a partnership to collaborate on existing services and co-develop future products.
Through the partnership, @Storyful and @Tweetminster will integrate their respective technologies into each others’ B2B commercial services, effectively leveraging on each...
August 2011
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Tweetminster for iPhone
We’re delighted to announce the launch of the official Tweetminster iphone app. Version 1.0 is live with all the features you’ve come to expect from our dynamic news platform, plus introduces the beta version of our live trends engine - giving you the keywords and trending topics dominating UK politics news stories.
The app gets you quality news content from websites, blogs and social...
May 2011
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A proportional representation of AV versus the...
For our latest infographic, Tweetminster has teamed up with Portland to visualise Twitter buzz about the AV referendum by comparing the average tweets per hour of several events:
#Yes2AV and #No2AV tweets on April 27: 232.5 TPH
C4news 19:00 edition on April 27: 129 TPH
Britain’s Got Talent on April 30: 64,836 TPH
BBC Newsnight edition of April 27: 466 TPH
#Libya tweets on April 28:...
April 2011
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One-in-two iPhone and Android users don't get AV
Tweetminster and Qriously, a service for measuring location-based public sentiment in real-time, have announced a partnership that will bring Qriously’s real-time sentiment polling to UK politics.
To kick-off the partnership, Qriously and Tweetminster asked 1,204 random UK-based smartphone users a series of questions around the upcoming AV referendum:
The majority of those asked...
What UK Media Tweets About
Throughout the month of February Tweetminster analysed 82,340 tweets posted by UK media sources and journalists on Twitter.
This infographic visualises what they talked about. It aims to display each source’s level of activity on Twitter and the attention that each source gave to different news stories and topics during February 2011.
A list of accounts for each source can be found at...
March 2011
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A summary of #Budget11
During #Budget11 we processed 31,831 tweets. The average rate of posts was 3.29 tweets per second.
The most tweeted parts of the budget were the announcement of a 1p per litre fuel duty cut, which peaked at 9.5 tweets per second, followed by corporation tax announcements at 8.8 tweets per second, while the announcement of 21 enterprise zones registered 7.5 tweets per second and the revised OBR...
February 2011
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Powered by data, filtered by experts - introducing...
Tweetminster’s goal has always been to use data to help people better connect with the influencers, trends, news and opinion that shape current affairs.
During the past few months we’ve been busy connecting the dots between the various technologies, algorithms and tools we’ve built over the past two years to develop a news platform that is curated by data and filtered by...
January 2011
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In their coverage of Egypt, the media have been...
We thought it would be interesting to compare how rapidly UK mainstream media were off the blocks in reporting unrest in Tunisia compared to more recent events in Egypt.
To do this we analysed the tweets from official Guardian, The Independent, Sky News, Channel 4 News, BBC, The Telegraph and Financial Times’ Twitter accounts, and those of their journalists. You can find the various lists...
October 2010
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Tweetminster enters US market by partnering with...
We’re delighted to announce a partnership with @tweetcongress, which will see us enter the US market.
Through our relationship with @tweetcongress:
Tweetminster technology will power the Tweetcongress website
Tweetcongress will partner on selling Tweetminster’s commercial social media monitoring services in the US
Tweetminster and Tweetcongress to jointly publish research &...
Top trends in a day in the life of the Greater...
This morning the Greater Manchester Police (@gmpolice) announced that they would be tweeting all the incidents they dealt with over 24 hours.
Besides providing unique insight into the everyday work of the police, the experiment is an incredible resource in terms of the data that is being shared.
Between 5am and 5pm, over 1000 incidents had been recorded, 119 people held in custody and 217...
September 2010
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LAB10 - the data
During Labour’s Annual Conference we processed and analysed 35,652 tweets. Here are our top-findings.
Of the 93 Labour MPs on Twitter, 60 tweeted during the conference. You can download the data here.
The top trends from the conference were Labour’s leadership selection, David Miliband’s departure from front-bench politics, unions, shadow cabinet nominations, cuts, the Tories,...
Instant analysis of Ed Miliband's speech
We processed and analysed 3273 tweets during @Ed_Miliband’s speech.
Sentiment on Twitter around @Ed_Miliband at the beginning of the speech was 3.31 out of 5. It dropped slightly to 3.23 (a 0.08 drop) when @Ed_Miliband concluded. This compares to @Nick_Clegg’s 2.9 out of 5 (with a 0.14 drop during the speech).
Sentiment is scored on a scale of 0 to 5 where 5 is the highest and 2.5 is...
LDCONF - the data
We returned recently from the Liberal Democrat Annual Conference in Liverpool. As we did last year, we live-tweeted through @TMliveevents, shared insights on the mood and stories from the conference and did a series of @audioboo interviews with influencers, MPs, experts and ministers. All the content we produced during the conference can be found on our Twitter account - @tweetminster - and our...
Data: comparing trends across UK media
At Tweetminster we love data. As blogged yesterday, all the content we aggregate and share is curated by data, while all the analysis that we release is based upon trends and insight that is often captured from millions of tweets.
We’re keen to open up our data, and let you do cool stuff with it. We’re almost at a stage where we can do this, and are currently developing ways to make...
Tweaking our Home Page
Today we’re releasing a revamped version of our home page. The aim is to bring fresh content to the forefront of Tweetminster.co.uk.
We’ve made it easier to access our Channels, these are pages that bring together live content and trends around topics, and we’ve integrated in the home page a module to list the most shared links by influencers across current affairs.
All the...
August 2010
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The Coalition - 100 days on Twitter
For the past three months Tweetminster has captured and analysed over 5 million tweets relevant to the coalition government’s first 100 days. Today it released a report that visualises the key insights:
A disproportionately high number of posts and media stories shared on Twitter about the government, across all issues, centre around the Prime Minister. The media narrative and conversations...
July 2010
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Pre-1997 source material from Peter Mandelson's...
This morning we were invited to a breakfast hosted by Peter Mandelson to launch his book, ‘The Third Man’.
The event was a very interesting one - @anthonypainter has a write up here.
All attendants were provided with a set of source materials from the book, we thought it would be worth sharing these, so are embedding them below.
The Third Man can be purchased on Amazon.
Tony Job...
Comparing trending topics
One of the features that most excites us about the ‘Media Watch’ channel we launched earlier today, is the ability to compare trending topics across UK media.
Here’s a look at trending topics earlier today:
On Twitter (UK trending topics): Raoul Moat, Lindsey Lohan, Cedric Diggory, Yvette Cooper, Edward Cullen, Jeremy Kyle, Germany
Google News: Raoul Moat, Cheryl Cole, Thuat...
Introducing a 'Media Watch' Channel
We’re delighted to announce the launch of a new Channel on Tweetminster - “Media Watch.”
The Channel brings together all UK media on Twitter, and presents a livestream of the tweets of journalists and news sources, the most shared stories within UK media and by journalists, and trending topics.
The Channel also includes filters by source, and like all of our other Channels...
How to use Tweetminster's Lists for media...
Earlier today we launched several lists aggregating UK media by source. These can be found on our lists page on Twitter.
Lists are a good way of organising and following a select number of people and organisations on Twitter. The media lists are hopefully a helpful addition to our lists of MPs on Twitter, UK MEPs on Twitter, Government Departments, ministers and the Westminster Wire, a list of...
June 2010
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June Budget - the stats
There were 47,466 tweets by 19,432 tweeters around the Budget.
The most tweeted terms were:
Osborne
Growth
Tax
Spending
Clegg
Euro
Labour
Cut
Deficit
Debt
OBR
Harman
Capital
Austerity
Recovery
Introducing Tweetminster V.2
We’re delighted to announce the launch of Tweetminster V.2 and the release of many new tools and features.
So, what’s new?
Channels
Alongside a design revamp, we’re launching ‘Channels’ - algorithmically curated pages that dynamically aggregate relevant content around topics. We’re kicking things off with the Economy, Europe & Foreign Affairs, Education,...
May 2010
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The Queen's Speech - process over content (on...
We counted 3487 tweets by 2293 tweeters during the State Opening of Parliament.
The most mentioned terms within tweets were:
Parliament
Lord
State
Westminster
Coalition
Buckingham Palace
Procession
David Cameron
Bell
Throne
Clegg
Carriage
Robe
Ken Clarke
It would appear that people on Twitter were more interested in the process than in the content of the speech.
Her Majesty's Government on Twitter.
The Downing Street website today published the full list of her Majesty’s Government
We thought it would be helpful to list those that are on Twitter:
Deputy Prime Minister - @nick_clegg
Secretary of State for Foreign & Commonwealth Affairs - @WilliamJHague
Minister of State (at Ministry of Justice & Home Office) - @NickHerbertMP
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Home...
Tweetminster Predicts - findings
Tweetminster Predicts: Findings
Tweetminster Predicts - a hung parliament
Today we’re releasing the final set of ‘Tweetminster Predicts’ figures, our experiment in predictive modelling that studies the correlation between buzz on Twitter and election results. The model looks at the most mentioned candidate in each of the constituencies represented on Twitter (full details of the methodology are below).
Our latest figures, based on the 433...
