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,...
