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Trends on #ausvotes during the Australian Election, Pt. 1

Snurb, 1 September 2010
Okay. A week and a half have passed since the Australian federal election on 21 August, and we’re still none the wiser about who will form the next government (though it’s worth mentioning in passing that [...]

Top 20 election-related YouTube videos (according to Twitter)

Top 20 election-related YouTube videos (according to Twitter)

Jean Burgess, 12 August 2010
Update: this analysis covers a few less days than I originally stated – the results should look quite different once we add in this week’s links (and next week’s!). Here are the top 20 Australian election-related [...]

More on Twitter during the Australian Election Campaign

Snurb, 28 July 2010
Over on Fairfax’s National Times opinion site, I’ve now posted a first article examining the use of Twitter during the early election campaign – for the first week of campaigning, excluding the debate last Sunday (which [...]

Tweeting the Debate: Some Content Patterns

Snurb, 26 July 2010
Following on from our look at Twitter activity during the Australian leaders’ debate and Masterchef broadcasts, here’s an overview of the patterns we can see in the content of the tweets themselves. For this, I’ve grabbed [...]

Politics vs. Masterchef: The View from Twitter

Snurb, 26 July 2010
Sunday night’s leaders’ debate is unlikely to be remembered for the policy positions it revealed – indeed, perhaps the most memorable aspect of the night was how federal politics was nearly upstaged by the finale of [...]

Creating Twitter Timelines from Twapperkeeper Data

Snurb, 22 July 2010
This is the first in what will be an irregular series of methods posts outlining some of our approaches to working with datasets from various sources. Part of our work over the next few weeks will [...]