Leaders' Debate Vol. 2

This week during there was a lower number of tweets and tweeters compared to the first leaders’ debate:

• Total number of tweets: 142,795 (-41,601)
• Average frequency: 26.6 tweets/second (-2.46)
• Peak: 33.18 tweets/sec. (-7.87)
• Number of Tweeters 28,790 (-7,693)

Our sentiment scores point to a draw showing: Cameron: 3.1 (-0.2 from starting score), Brown 3.1 (nc) Clegg 3.1 (nc). You can find out more about how we calculate sentiment here.

Most tweeted terms:

1. Cameron
2. Clegg
3. Brown
4. Immigration
5. Work
6. Policy
7. Vote
8. Parliament
9. Green
10. Energy
11. Bank
12. Tax
13. Power
14. Change
15. Society

The following graph shows the average frequency of tweets per second during the course of the debate:

Posted at Thu, Apr 22nd 2010, 22:24