@marcoRecorder
I spent the weekend looking at what people have been saying about the European elections. I’m quite sleepless but I want to share some of my findings with you before I leave for holidays tomorrow. In the middle of the day I was asked to send some comments about social media and the elections to Radio X (Brussels) for a programme they recorded with communications experts on the topic. Since I couldn’t write an extensive comment I took my phone and made a video comment.
This data is factual and the opinions expressed here do not reflect the position of my employer. Overall, I have collected and analysed over 1.2 million social media mentions related to the European elections. Most of these mentions were collected via Twitter, blogs and public Facebook posts. The pan-European hashtag for the elections #EP2014 was used over 583K times between 22/05 and 26/05 at 7:00AM on Twitter which is a pretty impressive result and went very close to my predictions ahead of the elections
Somebody has to pay me a drink. I predicted exactly 1M mentions for #EP2014 in May right after the elections…voilà pic.twitter.com/50GxHleuuJ
— marcoRecorder (@marcoRecorder) May 26, 2014
In order to provide some context, in the past 30 days we could record roughly the same amount of mentions for #EP2014 and #Ukraine. Most used words together with #EP2014
Demographics of #EP2014 The biggest volumes of conversations were recorded in France, Italy, Spain and the UK. The most used languages recorded were English (29%), Spanish (21.7%), French(19%) and Italian (10.3%)
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