December 2009
4 posts
Twitter & UK Politics: 2009 top-trends.
Tweetminster turned one yesterday, to celebrate we’ve decided to look back at the top trends in UK politics on Twitter over the last 12 months. Top Trends cpc09 (Conservative Party Conference) lab09 (Labour Party Conference) Labour party BBC Question Time Tories David Cameron Twitter Obama Climate Change Hope Most Active MPs Kerry McCarthy Tom Watson Andrew Gwynne Tom Harris ...
Dec 20th
Introducing Tweetminster Search v.0.8.
Today we’re delighted to announce the release of Tweetminster Search v0.8. Here’s what’s new: Four-fold increase in the data-set and sample we index. The index includes politicians, journalists, news sources, bloggers, influencers and a weighted segment of “the public”. From today onwards, this data-set will constantly grow. Released the next iteration of our...
Dec 17th
Which issues are most likely to attract positive...
One of the elements that most excites us about Tweetminster Search are the curious nuggets that occasionally pop up from the data and information that we analyse. We feel it would be interesting to share some of these findings from time to time, so we ran a little experiment to find out the sentiment that topics are most likely to attract within the conversations that they generate. Here’s...
Dec 13th
Measuring the Pulse of UK politics in real time:...
Tweetminster’s mission is to make politics more open and social. We believe that part of that mission is to help people find and make sense of relevant information. That’s why today, after months of hard work, we’re delighted to announce Tweetminster Search – a sentiment engine to measure the pulse of UK politics in real time. Tweetminster Search is a new way to find, interact and make sense of...
Dec 8th