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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Content, Commentary & Trends - all in one place.

We’re delighted to announce the release v.0.9. of Tweetminster Search.

Here are the top headlines:

• We’ve added a News page: you can see what’s happening in UK politics in real time: fed from our Twitter lists of 100s of news sources, blogs, journalists, politicians and influencers
• When you Search, alongside the analytics, you’ll now see relevant content
• We’ve added a Trends page - it shows what’s popular and trending in UK politics (many more metrics & lists on there way shortly)
• We’ve integrated tools to easily share tweets and analysis via Twitter
• We’ve further grown the “sample-size” for our analytics: it now exceeds 5,000 people.

In short, Tweetminster Search brings you all the news, trends and commentary around UK politics in one place.

We look forward to your thoughts and feedback - @tweetminster

Posted at Wed, Feb 10th 2010, 11:00
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Tweetminster Daily - February 9 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 21 - 09/02/2010 - 17:00

Conservatives

Volume of stories & conversations: 170

Most popular links in the last 24 hours:

1. Joanne Cash resigns as Tory candidate for Westminster North
2. How ‘AV’ made Cameron Tory leader
3. Petition Power
4. Conservatives: we’ll listen to the Civil Service
5. Fixing Our Broken Politics

Party sentiment score: +2 (Variation in the past 24 hours: +7)
Leader sentiment score: +4 (Variation in the past 24 hours: NC)

Labour

Volume of stories & conversations: 94

Most popular links in the last 24 hours:

1. Target Cancer
2. Taking The Pulse: Cardiff
3. Brown ditches his KitKats for NINE bananas a day diet to look ‘radiant’ for General Election
4. Cameron accuses Brown of ‘headlong retreat’ over MPs’ suspensions
5. Gordon Brown promises free home care to cancer patients

Party sentiment score: +12 (24 hour variation: +17)
Leader sentiment score: +16 (24 hour variation: +8)

Liberal Democrats

Volume of stories & conversations: 21

Most popular links in the last 24 hours:

1. Clegg must resist Brown’s sweet nothings
2. Boris’s budget: the Lib Dems’ amendment
3. Brown and Cameron are the real roadblocks to reform
4. Second homes and public spending in Cornwall
5. Glenda Jackson slams Brent Lib Dems for closure of Kilburn ‘In2 Work’ centre

Party sentiment score: +7 (24 hour variation: +6)
Leader sentiment score: 0 (24 hour variation: -23)

New MPs/PPCs on Twitter:

@stevemccabemp Labour MP for Birmingham, Hall Green

@stuartmaclennan Labour PPC for Moray

@janice4batley Conservative PPC for Batley and Spen

@LyndaWalthoMP Labour MP for Stourbridge

@timloughton Conservative MP for the East Worthing & Shoreham

@Mark_Prisk Conservative MP for Hertford & Stortford

@AVMitchellMP Labour MP for Great Grimsby

@helenduffett Lib Dem PPC for Romford

Posted at Tue, Feb 9th 2010, 17:18
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Tweetminster Daily - February 8 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 20 - 08/02/2010 - 17:00

Conservatives

Volume of stories & conversations: 285

Most popular links in the last 24 hours:

1. Telegraph - The Conservatives continue to emphasise a new ‘special relationship’ with India
2. Evening Standard - Petition power
3. Independent - Clegg hints Tories may make better coalition partner
4. Public Service - Tories are ‘back-pedalling on localism’
5. Independent Minds - Amol Rajan: The silence of British conservatives on Sarah Palin

Party sentiment score: -5 (Variation in the past 24 hours: -2)
Leader sentiment score: +4 (Variation in the past 24 hours: +4)

Labour

Volume of stories & conversations: 179

Most popular links in the last 24 hours:

1. Conservative Home - Gordon Brown’s electoral reforms would increase Labour’s advantage
2. House of Twits - Can Labour win back women voters?
3. Guardian - Gordon Brown declares: ‘Labour can still win: I’m absolutely sure of it’
4. Guardian - Gordon Brown attacks ‘scandal’ of Lord Ashcroft donations
5. The Way We Are - Shouldn’t Gordon Brown be much more unpopular than this?

Party sentiment score: -5 (24 hour variation: -2)
Leader sentiment score: +8 (24 hour variation: +8)

Liberal Democrats

Volume of stories & conversations: 69

Most popular links in the last 24 hours:

1. Electoral Calculus
2. Spectator - Clegg must resist Brown’s sweet nothings
3. BBC News - Paramedic claims Lib Dem AM Mick Bates assaulted him
4. David Cornock - Lib Dems turn drama into a story
5. Independent - Clegg hints Tories may make better coalition partner

Party sentiment score: +1 (24 hour variation: -8)
Leader sentiment score: +23 (24 hour variation: +23)

New MPs/PPCs on Twitter:

@Jeremy_Hunt - Conservative MP for South West Surrey

@KevinSWard - Liberal Democrat PPC for Glasgow East

@Freeman_George - Conservative PPC for Mid Norfolk

@greglovelluk Labour PPC for Chippenham (also standing in Chippenham: @duncanhames and @wilfred4change)

@denishealy Lib Dem PPC for Hull North (also standing in Hull North: @dianajohnsonmp)

Posted at Mon, Feb 8th 2010, 17:37
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