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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
Posted at Tue, Jun 22nd 2010, 14:55
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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, Environment, Society and Health.
Each Channel encompasses a livestream of relevant tweets, the most shared topical news stories relevant to the Channel, thematic trends and recommended Twitter users who post a lot about the Channel’s issue.
We want to help you follow and build a network not just of ‘friends’, but around the issues that matter to you. This is just a first round of Channels - over time we will be adding more, around both topics and locations.
@anywhere
We’ve also integrated Twitter’s @anywhere functionality across the site - this means you can find and follow MPs directly from Tweetminster, you can find out more about the tweeters that appear in the livestream by hovering over their username and you can reply, tweet and follow people from Tweetminster by connecting with Twitter from the site.
Lists
Finally, we’ve added our most popular Lists to the site: MPs, the Westminster Wire (a list of all political journalists, news sources and influencers) and lists for MPs by party. The latter lists can be found in our MPs section, which now also includes a running total of MPs by party.
The goal of Tweetminster is to organise content and networks, and make it easier for people to follow and interact with UK politics, and we hope that you agree Tweetminster V.2 is a significant step in this direction.
We look forward to your thoughts, and do send us your feedback - @tweetminster
To check V2 out head over to Tweetminster.
Posted at Thu, Jun 10th 2010, 11:40
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The Queen's Speech - process over content (on Twitter at least)
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.
Posted at Tue, May 25th 2010, 12:19
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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 Office) - @JBrokenshire
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Equalities) - @lfeatherstone
Minister for the Armed Forces - @NickHarveyND
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Ministry of Defence) - @geraldhowarth
Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills - @vincecable
Minister of State (BIS) - @markprisk
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (BIS) - @eddaveykands
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (BIS & DCMS) - @edvaizey
Minister of State (Department Work and Pensions) - @stevewebb1
Secretary of State of Energy and Climate Change - @chrishuhne
Minister of State (Department of Health) - @paulburstow
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Education) - @timloughton
Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government - @ericpickles
Minister of State (DCLG) - @grantshapps
Minister of State (Department for International Development) - @AlanDuncan4MP
Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sports - @jeremy_hunt
Secretary of State for Scotland - @dannyalexander
Parliamentary Under secretary of State (Scotland) - @davidmundelldct
Parliamentary Under secretary of State (Wales) - @davidjonesmp
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office) - @nickhurdmp
Whips, Junior Lords of Treasury & Assistant Whips - @acarmichael4mp ; @mike_fabricant ; @jamesduddridge ; @normanlamb
Posted at Thu, May 20th 2010, 11:26
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