Data Mining: How Twitter responded to the Arsenal vs Barcelona Champions League game

How Twitter responded to the Arsenal / Barcelona Champions League quarter final first round match. We’ve put this together with data from the twitter API compiled on the night after the game and BBC Sport text commentary.

Full PDF is available (dropbox direct link).

We’ll be looking at more projects in the future so if you want to know more about how we did this or have some twitter ideas you’d like us to look at, drop us a line… email / tweet (Mark or James).

Things we thought were interesting about this graph:

• The lag between the big game events and twitterers’ responses seems to be around 90 seconds to two minutes. The time is takes to shout at the TV and then shout on twitter?
• The quietest times for tweets come right before goals.
• The 8pm spike is interesting – we haven’t dug into why this was here… was it just supporters tweeting about how on the back foot the Gunners were? Or maybe tuning in late thinking it was an 8pm kick off?

What can you see in there? Let us know?

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