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Twitter mining of the first UK election leaders debate from 15th April. Just like our Arsenal / Barcelona graph, we put this together with data from the Twitter API compiled in the morning after the debates. We chose to focus the response to each of the leaders and so searched for tweets including their names in full.
There is clearly little or no correlation between the questions in the debate and the volume of tweets for each leader. Twitterers seem less engaged by the politics and more interested with responding to jokes, banter and discussion about the leaders. As a result spikes have been generated by the responses and retweets caused by these humerous and sometimes critcal observations.
James Garner on Computer Week suggested that twitter is “dominated by the largely liberal left”. This appears to be supported by Nick Clegg being mentioned 39% of the time and that’s without many twitter jokes made at his expense.
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As a traditionally trained programmer, James works in backend development and strategy, with the occasional hop to Sweden to teach programming modules at Hyper Island.