October 2009
9 posts
How the Question Time experiment worked.
Last night we ran a little experiment during BBC Question Time aimed at measuring the volume and sentiment of tweets during the programme.
You can view the various stats in our Twitter feed. We hope you found it useful and would love to know your thoughts and feedback.
Several people asked us how it all worked. The aim of the experiement was mainly to test various tools and technologies (that we...
Conference Diary, Conservatives 2009, Days three &...
Day three of the Conservative Conference got off to a slower start than normal. As Nadine Dorris MP tweeted “Everyone looks exhausted today after last night’s parties. If you could bottle the atmosphere and sell it you’d easily fund the GE campaign”.
The day focussed on education and social policies with Michael Gove setting the ball rolling with plans for a shake up in school policy. Among...
Twitter sentiment around David Cameron's speech
Of the 768 tweets from MPs, PPCs, journalists, bloggers, influencers and news sources during David Cameron’s speech the split of positive, negative and neutral reactions was as follows:
40% Neutral 30% Positive 30% Negative
The breakdown is possibly impacted by the greater presence of Labour affiliates on Twitter, in fact removing party affiliation from the calculations (i.e. focussing on...
Party Conference Diary, Conservative 2009, Day...
Day two of the Conservative conference dawned with Monday’s sunshine replaced by lashing rain. Tweetminster’s co-founder @albertonardelli still sported his controversial duffel coat with strategy director @abeddard opting for a below-the-radar Barbour to redress the balance - and keep the rain out.
The day rotated around shadow Chancellor George Osborne’s speech and...
Party Conference Diary, Conservative 2009, Day...
Tweetminster arrived in Manchester with our co-founder @albertonardelli complaining about the cold and our strategist (and today’s blogger) @abeddard enthusing about being back in his home city after an interval of a quarter of a century. The recently rejuvenated city centre provided a stunning setting for a slick and impressively staged conference. Security was robust, with the familiar...
Party Conference Diary, Labour 2009, Final Day.
It was another sunny morning in Brighton to see out Labour’s 2009 conference, drawing a comment from David Miliband that “The sun has shone on this conference every day… not the one printed in Wapping”. In many respects Miliband’s appearance was the most anticipated event of the day. The Foreign Secretary’s message to the audience was dominated by references...
Twitter doesn't seem to care about The Sun.
One of the biggest bangs to emerge from this week’s Labour Party Conference was The Sun’s endorsement of the Conservatives.
We ran a little experiment on the sentiment on Twitter around the story.
There were 248 tweets from MPs, journalists, commentators, PPCs and News Sources on Twitter relevant to the story. While journalists and mainstream news sources clearly feel the endorsement...
Twinterviewing Ed Miliband
After receiving lots of questions from @tweetminster followers, we got exclusive access to Environment Secretary Ed Miliband for a thirty minute twinterview. We were also joined by Labour’s New Media Spokesperson Kerry McCarthy <@kerrymp>. Miliband was fighting a nasty cold, but it didn’t slow him down as he grabbed the laptop and started typing away - “I’m enjoying...
Conference Diary, Labour 2009, Day four
As we tweeted last night after our strangely zen audioboo with Jon Snow of C4 news.The Sun are backing the Conservatives. If you are to believe the press, this is a crippling blow for Labour’s election campaign, so this morning we gauged reactions. According to Creative Industries Minister Sion Simon, they have been backing the Conservatives for the last two years, so the...
