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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:
- Tory MP Andrew MacKay To Join Burson-Marsteller Lobbying Arm
- Fixing our Broken Politics
- Ask the audience. Who was flanking Cameron at UEL?
- MyDavidCameron
- 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:
- Gordon Brown’s death tax
- Liberal Democrat schools spokesman praises “astonishing, dramatic, unbelievable” improvement in schools under Labour
- Brown attacked over elderly care plan funding
- Public Ballot For Brown’s Iraq Evidence
- 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:
- Liberal Democrat schools spokesman praises “astonishing, dramatic, unbelievable” improvement in schools under Labour
- Twitter etc and the election: Is it worth the risk?
- 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:
- Joanne Cash resigns as Tory candidate for Westminster North
- How ‘AV’ made Cameron Tory leader
- Petition Power
- Conservatives: we’ll listen to the Civil Service
- 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:
- Target Cancer
- Taking The Pulse: Cardiff
- Brown ditches his KitKats for NINE bananas a day diet to look ‘radiant’ for General Election
- Cameron accuses Brown of ‘headlong retreat’ over MPs’ suspensions
- 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:
- Clegg must resist Brown’s sweet nothings
- Boris’s budget: the Lib Dems’ amendment
- Brown and Cameron are the real roadblocks to reform
- Second homes and public spending in Cornwall
- 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:
- Telegraph - The Conservatives continue to emphasise a new ‘special relationship’ with India
- Evening Standard - Petition power
- Independent - Clegg hints Tories may make better coalition partner
- Public Service - Tories are ‘back-pedalling on localism’
- 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:
- Conservative Home - Gordon Brown’s electoral reforms would increase Labour’s advantage
- House of Twits - Can Labour win back women voters?
- Guardian - Gordon Brown declares: ‘Labour can still win: I’m absolutely sure of it’
- Guardian - Gordon Brown attacks ‘scandal’ of Lord Ashcroft donations
- 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:
- Electoral Calculus
- Spectator - Clegg must resist Brown’s sweet nothings
- BBC News - Paramedic claims Lib Dem AM Mick Bates assaulted him
- David Cornock - Lib Dems turn drama into a story
- 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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