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 all tweets containing the ‘#debate’ hashtag during 5 p.m. and midnight on Sunday (during which time, as we have …
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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 Masterchef (some kind of cooking show, I believe :-). So, how did the night unfold? Following the methodology I’ve …
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