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Tweetminster Daily - February 15 2010

The Tweetminster Daily is a summary of the day’s top political stories and analysis around the main parties. The summary isn’t curated or editorially controlled, but entirely built using data.

Issue 24 - 15/02/2010 - 18:00

Conservatives

Volume of stories & conversations: 361

Most popular links in the last 24 hours:

  1. Guardian - Tories get their sums wrong in attack on teen pregnancy
  2. BBC News - Tories criticised over teenage pregnancy figure error
  3. BBC News - Goldie Hawn talks to Tories about setting up schools (BBC News - Goldie Hawn talks to Tories about setting up schools
  4. The Conservatives’ new poster campaign leads to full-scale Twitter warfare
  5. Conservatives parade converts to their cause

Party sentiment score: -1 (Variation in the past 24 hours: +1)
Leader sentiment score: +15 (Variation in the past 24 hours: +17)

Labour

Volume of stories & conversations: 146

Most popular links in the last 24 hours:

  1. BBC News - Piers Morgan interview with Gordon Brown attracts 4.2m
  2. Guardian - The celebrity debasement of politics
  3. Guardian - We do feel sorry for Gordon Brown, but in the wrong way
  4. New Statesman - Why the Tories’ pregnancy error is alarming
  5. Labour List - More very dodgy Tory stats as they say 54% of under 18s likely to fall pregnant in most deprived areas

Party sentiment score: -9 (24 hour variation: -9)
Leader sentiment score: +13 (24 hour variation: NC)

Liberal Democrats

Volume of stories & conversations: 49

Most popular links in the last 24 hours:

  1. Guardian - Lib Dems rule out coalition government
  2. Guardian - Tories leave cross-party talks on care for elderly in doubt
  3. Guardian - Lib Dems in the spotlight as potential for hung parliament looms
  4. BBC News - Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg ‘undecided about coalitions’
  5. Sky News - No Coalition Deal Says Lib Dem Leader Clegg

Party sentiment score: +18 (24 hour variation: +5)
Leader sentiment score: 0 (24 hour variation: NC)

New MPs/PPCs on Twitter:

@elliotfullwood - Independent PPC for Chelsea and Fulham


Posted at Mon, Feb 15th 2010, 18:28
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Which is the most talked about party on Twitter?

Each day Tweetminster tracks the volume of news stories and conversations around the three main parties on Twitter.

This metric tells us several things:

  1. how many stories there are about the parties in the media each day
  2. how widely these stories are being shared and discussed
  3. the frequency with which people are talking about these stories, and the diversity of conversations and opinions that are being shared.

We thought it would be interesting to plot the volume of stories and conversations around the three main parties over a period of time.

The following graph does just that and shows volume of stories and conversations for the past 9 working days (i.e. February 1st to February 11th, weekends excluded):

Party Volume

The graph clearly shows a consistently greater volume of conversations and stories around the Conservative party. The trend is further highlighted by looking at totals and averages per party:

  • The Conservatives averaged 218.4 stories and conversations per day, totalling 1966.
  • Labour averaged 179.6 per day and totalled 1617.
  • The Liberal Democrats average 47.2 per day and totalled 425 stories and conversations.

Simply put, this means a combination of: a) more news stories about the Conservatives are being shared b) there are more conversations about the Conservatives than there are around the other main parties.

Tweetminster also tracks the most shared and mentioned links/URLs around the main parties, which are helpful in understanding the trends behind the volume. For the purpose of this analysis we categorised links in to simple categories:

  • official party communications
  • news pertinent to one of the main parties
  • stories, conversations and analysis around official announcements
  • stories & conversations that scrutinise or criticise (i.e. are negative towards) official communications

We found that:

  • the most frequently shared links and conversations tend to be around the Conservative Party.
  • these include: official communications from the Conservative Party, stories and conversations, both negative and positive, around these announcements and news stories pertinent to the party. In all these groupings, the volume around the Conservative party is greater than around both Labour and the Liberal Democrats.
  • the majority of “labour-related” stories and conversations tend to be around “neutral” Government-related news and conversations around these stories, both positive and negative.
  • there is likely to be a combination of both scrutiny and “negativity” at play. Either way, it would seem that negative stories tend to be more widely shared than positive ones.
  • stories and conversations around the Liberal Democrats rarely go beyond the “party network”
  • the mainstream media’s focus is mainly split between the Government and the Conservative Party.

We look forward to your thoughts.


Posted at Fri, Feb 12th 2010, 15:17
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Tweetminster Daily - February 11 2010

The Tweetminster Daily is a summary of the day’s top political stories and analysis around the main parties. The summary isn’t curated or editorially controlled, but entirely built using data.

Issue 23 - 11/02/2010 - 19:30

Conservatives

Volume of stories & conversations: 102

Most popular links in the last 24 hours:

  1. George Osborne on Facebook
  2. Cameron announces new plans on transparency
  3. Tory attack on lobbyists rings hollow
  4. The Tories step up anti-spin efforts with a MumsNet advert
  5. Tories respond to FactCheck spending verdict

Party sentiment score: -5 (Variation in the past 24 hours: +1)
Leader sentiment score: -1 (Variation in the past 24 hours: -9)

Labour

Volume of stories & conversations: 84

Most popular links in the last 24 hours:

  1. What will a short election campaign mean for TV debates?
  2. Gove’s Moroccan carpet blamed for Commons moth plague
  3. Gordon Brown’s death tax
  4. New book slams Brown
  5. Labour is running up a down escalator to tackle inequality

Party sentiment score: -3 (24 hour variation: -3)
Leader sentiment score: -4 (24 hour variation: +4)

Liberal Democrats

Volume of stories & conversations: 23

Most popular links in the last 24 hours:

  1. Use old shipyards to produce wind turbines, says Nick Clegg
  2. LDV party members’ survey: Nick Clegg approval rating at +66%
  3. Ivybridge to Derriford Hospital bus campaign for Lib Dem Tony Barber
  4. Simon Hughes gets on his bike
  5. Lib Dems’ arts policy marred by spelling errors

Party sentiment score: 0 (24 hour variation: -17)
Leader sentiment score: 0 (24 hour variation: +8)


Posted at Thu, Feb 11th 2010, 19:46
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Tweetminster Daily - February 10 2010

The Tweetminster Daily is a summary of the day’s top political stories and analysis around the main parties. The summary isn’t curated or editorially controlled, but entirely built using data.

Issue 22 - 10/02/2010 - 17:30

Conservatives

Volume of stories & conversations: 242

Most popular links in the last 24 hours:

  1. Tory MP Andrew MacKay To Join Burson-Marsteller Lobbying Arm
  2. Fixing our Broken Politics
  3. Ask the audience. Who was flanking Cameron at UEL?
  4. MyDavidCameron
  5. Cameron’s freebie to apartheid South Africa

Party sentiment score: -6 (Variation in the past 24 hours: -8)
Leader sentiment score: +8 (Variation in the past 24 hours: +4)

Labour

Volume of stories & conversations: 211

Most popular links in the last 24 hours:

  1. Gordon Brown’s death tax
  2. Liberal Democrat schools spokesman praises “astonishing, dramatic, unbelievable” improvement in schools under Labour
  3. Brown attacked over elderly care plan funding
  4. Public Ballot For Brown’s Iraq Evidence
  5. Eric Pickles looks at why Labour want to change the voting system


Party sentiment score: 0 (24 hour variation: -7)
Leader sentiment score: -7 (24 hour variation: -28)

Liberal Democrats

Volume of stories & conversations: 54

Most popular links in the last 24 hours:

  1. Liberal Democrat schools spokesman praises “astonishing, dramatic, unbelievable” improvement in schools under Labour
  2. Twitter etc and the election: Is it worth the risk?
  3. Second homes and public spending in Cornwall

Party sentiment score: +17 (24 hour variation: +16)
Leader sentiment score: -8 (24 hour variation: -8)

New MPs/PPCs on Twitter:

@torymatt (Matt Hancock) Conservative PPC for Suffolk West


Posted at Wed, Feb 10th 2010, 17:56
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