January 2012
1 post
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
1 post
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
2 posts
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
1 post
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
2 posts
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
1 post
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
2 posts
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
5 posts
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
1 post
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
4 posts
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
2 posts
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
5 posts
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...
Help us map voter turnout on May 6th
On May 6th millions of people across the county will head to the polling booths to cast their vote. Tens of thousands of them use Twitter. Tweetminster, Channel 4, The Guardian and the New Statesman are teaming up to map the day’s action and we need your help. On May 6th, when you head out to vote, tweet #ukvote alongside the first half of your post code (for example #ukvote SE1) and we will...
April 2010
18 posts
Leaders' Debate Vol. 3
The third, and final, debate saw an increase in active compared to the previous debate. While the total number of tweets & tweeters didn’t reach the volume of the opening debate, the debate though registered highest peak, with 51.7 tweets per second posted as the leaders debated immigration.
Total number of tweets: 154,342 (+11,546 compared to the second debate)
Average frequency of...
Tweetminster Daily - April 26 2010
The Tweetminster Daily is a summary of the day’s top political stories and analysis around UK Politics. The summary isn’t curated or editorially controlled, but entirely built using data around the most shared and clicked on links on Twitter.
Issue 47 - 26/04/2010 - 19:30
Tories’ warning on free schools
The latest Conservative viral
Lib Dems stage fake ‘PC’ photos
Guess...
Tweetminster Predicts - a good week for the...
Today we publish the latest figures of our experiment in predictive modelling, which aims to study the correlation between buzz (mentions) around candidates on Twtter and election results.
There are now over 600 candidates and 427 constituencies mentioned on Twitter.
This weeks top-line figures: CON 35% (+2), LAB 30% (-2) LDEM 26% (-2) Others 9% (+2)
If these figures were translated into seats...
Leaders' Debate Vol. 2
This week during there was a lower number of tweets and tweeters compared to the first leaders’ debate:
Total number of tweets: 142,795 (-41,601)
Average frequency: 26.6 tweets/second (-2.46)
Peak: 33.18 tweets/sec. (-7.87)
Number of Tweeters 28,790 (-7,693)
Our sentiment scores point to a draw showing: Cameron: 3.1 (-0.2 from starting score), Brown 3.1 (nc) Clegg 3.1 (nc). You can find...
Tweetminster Daily - April 20 2010
The Tweetminster Daily is a summary of the day’s top political stories and analysis around UK Politics. The summary isn’t curated or editorially controlled, but entirely built using data around the most shared and clicked on links on Twitter.
Issue 46 - 20/04/2010 - 18:30
The ultimate fulfilment of the New Labour mission
Your voice, your choice
The wheels are coming off the Tory bicycle
...
Tweetminster Daily - April 19 2010
The Tweetminster Daily is a summary of the day’s top political stories and analysis around UK Politics. The summary isn’t curated or editorially controlled, but entirely built using data around the most shared and clicked on links on Twitter.
Issue 45 - 19/04/2010 - 18:00
The Daily News
I believe in fairness
What it takes to change a country
Liberal Democrats surge 10 points in ICM/Guardian...
Tweetminster Predicts - the Lib Dem surge is...
Once again, we’re publishing the updated figures of our experiment in predictive modelling that aims to study the correlation between word-of-mouth and election results.
There are now 402 constituencies mentioned on Twitter (up 13 from 389). The latest top-line figures are CON 33% (-2) LAB 32% (nc) LDEM 28% (+5) Others 7% (-3).
The Liberal Democrat surge is therefore also reflected within...
The most tweeted issue? Immigration
Last night we published a post with all the top-line figures and trends around the Leaders’ Debate. While, earlier today Google published some interesting findings on the most searched for terms during the debate.
We thought it would be of interest to add to the mix a list of the most mentioned topics in last night’s tweets:
Immigration
Reform
Education
Trident
China
...
The Leaders' Debate
The first leaders’ debate was the most tweeted event around UK politics, with more than triple the activity around Nick Griffin’s appearance at Question Time.
Here are the top-line figures:
Total tweets: 184,396 Average frequency 29.06 tweets per second Total tweeters: 36,483 Peak: 41.05 tweets/second
Sentiment scores: Clegg: 3.631, Cameron: 3.033, Brown: 3.006 (you can read more...
Tweetminster Daily - April 14 2010
The Tweetminster Daily is a summary of the day’s top political stories and analysis around UK Politics. The summary isn’t curated or editorially controlled, but entirely built using data around the most shared and clicked on links on Twitter.
Issue 44 - 14/04/2010 - 19:00
The single mother’s manifesto
The Liberal Democrats’ manifesto
No mention of Brown in 86% of Labour leaflets
...
Tweetminster Daily - April 12 2010
The Tweetminster Daily is a summary of the day’s top political stories and analysis around UK Politics. The summary isn’t curated or editorially controlled, but entirely built using data around the most shared and clicked on links on Twitter.
Issue 43 - 12/04/2010 - 18:00
The Labour Party Manifesto 2010
A Creative Ad for a Creative Britain
The Road Ahead
Your response to Labour’s...
Tweetminster Predicts - the trends are in the...
Today we’re publishing a third update in the figures of our experiment in predictive modelling, which aims to study the correlation between word-of-mouth and election results.
The most important shift this week is in the number of constituencies mentioned on Twitter. There are in fact now 389 (+5) constituencies mentioned on Twitter.
The latest topline prediction is CON 35 (-1) LAB 32...
Tweetminster Daily - April 9th 2010
The Tweetminster Daily is a summary of the day’s top political stories and analysis around UK Politics. The summary isn’t curated or editorially controlled, but entirely built using data around the most shared and clicked on links on Twitter.
Issue 42 - 09/04/2010 - 17:30
Labour PPC jokes re slavery, attacks chavs on Twitter
The Labour Candidate and a ‘slave-grown banana’ on...
Tweetminster Daily - April 8 2010
The Tweetminster Daily is a summary of the day’s top political stories and analysis around UK Politics. The summary isn’t curated or editorially controlled, but entirely built using data around the most shared and clicked on links on Twitter.
Issue 41 - 08/04/2010 - 18:00
Today’s most shared stories on Twitter around UK Politics:
Key voters want change, but like Brown
I’m voting Labour,...
Tweetminster Daily - April 7th 2010
The Tweetminster Daily is a summary of the day’s top political stories and analysis around UK Politics. The summary isn’t curated or editorially controlled, but entirely built using data around the most shared and clicked on links on Twitter.
Issue 40 - 07/04/2010 - 19:00
Today’s most shared stories on Twitter around UK Politics:
Prescott in Internet fraud scandal
New OECD report vindicates...
Tweetminster Predicts points to a hung parliament
Last week we launched Tweetminster Predicts, an experiment in predictive modelling that will compare mentions on Twitter with election results. The aim of the experiment is to study the correlation between word-of-mouth (online buzz around candidates) and election results. In each constituency represented on Twitter we count the most mentioned candidate in each of the analysed constituencies -...
Visualising sentiment trends more clearly
Alongside, launching our Election platform, today we’ve also changed the way we display sentiment scores - shifting from a -100 to +100 range to a 1-5 scale where 5 is highest positive sentiment.
We believe that this change will make it much easier to display how trends vary over time as it provides a much cleaner (less spiky) graph when the data is plotted. For example, comparing...
Introducing Tweetminster's Election Platform
Tweetminster now follows over 400 politicians on Twitter, 100s of news sources, commentators and influencers, and the ‘sample size’ that powers Tweetminster Search is now nearing 10,000 individuals. Over the past few weeks we have also experimented around live events and launched a real time research study that is fed from across Twitter.
These are exciting times for us.
Today,...
March 2010
21 posts
Tweetminster Daily - March 31 2010
The Tweetminster Daily is a summary of the day’s top political stories and analysis around UK Politics. The summary isn’t curated or editorially controlled, but entirely built using data around the most shared and clicked on links on Twitter.
Issue 39 - 31/03/2010 - 17:00
Today’s most shared stories on Twitter around UK Politics:
Does he have what it takes?
Tony Blair speech - as it...