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How to use Tweetminster's Lists for media monitoring
Earlier today we launched several lists aggregating UK media by source. These can be found on our lists page on Twitter.
Lists are a good way of organising and following a select number of people and organisations on Twitter. The media lists are hopefully a helpful addition to our lists of MPs on Twitter, UK MEPs on Twitter, Government Departments, ministers and the Westminster Wire, a list of all the top-sources and commentators around UK politics.
Lists are also a great tool to monitor media rather easily. If you use a Twitter client, like TweetDeck for example, you can very easily set up columns with any list - this means using Tweetminster’s various lists, one could easily follow all UK media, MPs, Government communications and key commentators & influences all from one platform.
While if you’re keen to follow and track relevant tweets around key topics, such as the Economy or Foreign Affairs, then check out our Channels. Alongside a livestream of tweets, Channels also include the most shared news stories and trends around each topic. We will soon make available feeds for the various Channels too and are working on several ways to make it easy to distribute the content of Channels as easily and widely as possible.
We can set up new Channels and feeds around any topic, event or network - so do get in touch with your ideas - @tweetminster .
Posted at Mon, Jul 5th 2010, 17:12
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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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