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#GOP2012 Twitter Report Day 4
#GOP2012 is the official hashtag of the Republican National Convention currently being held at Tampa Bay, Florida from August 27th – August 30th. During this period we tracked mentions of #GOP2012, #RNC, #RNC2012, #RomneyRyan2012, #tcot, @GOPConvention, @MittRomney and @PaulRyanVP on Twitter. Starting Day 3 we also tracked #WeBuiltIt.
The highest levels of interest were for Clint Eastwood (3954 tweets-per-minute), Mitt Romney (3852 tweets-per-minute) and the balloon drop/end of Romney’s speech (4125 tweets-per-minute).
Times shown are in Eastern Daylight Time (UTC -4 due to Daylight Savings Time). Stats in this report cover Day 4 (August 3oth). Click the images to view full-size.
Day Total
Tweets : 606,074
Users : 213, 882
Mentions by the minute
This graph shows tweet levels (mentions) per minute, from 6 PM – 12 AM on August 30th. Significant peaks are labeled on the graph. The peak times along with the main topic being tweeted about are listed below:
Format [Minute = Main speaker/topic being tweeted about (x users, y mentions)]
- 19:55 PM = Newt & Callista Gingrich (734 users, 775 mentions)
- 20:15 PM = Jeb Bush (915 users, 968 mentions)
- 21:06 PM = Tom Stemberg (817 users, 860 mentions)
- 21:35 PM = US Olympians (1035 users, 1083 mentions)
- 22:03 PM = Clint Eastwood (2395 users, 2504 mentions)
- 22:15 PM = End of Clint Eastwood’s speech (3749 users, 3954 mentions)
- 22:21 PM = Marco Rubio (3008 users, 3189 mentions)
- 22:36 PM = Mitt Romney gets on stage (3152 users, 3276 mentions)
- 22:45 PM = Mitt Romney (3678 users, 3852 mentions)
- 23:00 PM = Mitt Romney (3604 users, 3785 mentions)
- 23:15 PM = Buzz after end of Mitt Romney’s speech; Balloon drop (3962 users, 4125 mentions)
Mentions by the hour
This graph shows tweet levels (mentions) and users tweeting per hour, from 00:00 – 23:59 on August 30th. The gap between the users and mentions indicates how hot the tweeting activity was. Mentions peaked at 185,165 tweets-per-hour at 10 PM.
The data is shown in the table below:
| Hour | Users | Mentions |
| 0 | 9279 | 14827 |
| 1 | 4661 | 7318 |
| 2 | 2665 | 4490 |
| 3 | 1892 | 3325 |
| 4 | 1217 | 2047 |
| 5 | 1190 | 2098 |
| 6 | 1857 | 2966 |
| 7 | 3042 | 4873 |
| 8 | 4441 | 6997 |
| 9 | 6235 | 9422 |
| 10 | 6714 | 10615 |
| 11 | 7223 | 10857 |
| 12 | 7636 | 11438 |
| 13 | 7432 | 11031 |
| 14 | 8217 | 12109 |
| 15 | 7916 | 11611 |
| 16 | 9086 | 13402 |
| 17 | 8247 | 12191 |
| 18 | 8773 | 13268 |
| 19 | 12335 | 21500 |
| 20 | 21264 | 42676 |
| 21 | 25962 | 50997 |
| 22 | 79982 | 185165 |
| 23 | 78043 | 140851 |
Location of Tweeple
This map shows where geo-located tweets on the convention were coming from in the United States. Each blue dot represents one tweet. Unlike previous days we couldn’t show English/Non-English tweets. This is because the Streaming API does not include Twitter’s auto-detected language. Our own language detection system is optimised for distinguishing English from Malay/Indonesian, so it is not appropriate to apply to this set of tweets.
Differences from yesterday are a lot more tweets are visible on the map, expanding on existing clusters.
Popularity of Searchterms
The list below is a breakdown of how many users wrote tweets containing each searchterm, from 00:00 – 23:59 August 30th. It is ordered by the number of users.
- #RNC = 123032 users, 299770 mentions
- #GOP2012 = 69412 users, 178614 mentions
- #RNC2012 = 53265 users, 127807 mentions
- @MittRomney = 49836 users, 80497 mentions
- #RomneyRyan2012 = 39154 users, 62978 mentions
- @PaulRyanVP = 20622 users, 31021 mentions
- #tcot = 16315 users, 58920 mentions
- @GOPConvention = 3185 users, 5233 mentions
- #WeBuiltIt = 1308 users, 1690 mentions
Its interesting that #RNC was more widely used than #GOP2012, the official hashtag for the convention. Mentions of @GOPConvention and #WeBuiltIt continued to remain low as in the previous days. We missed out on tracking #BelieveInAmerica.
Popular tweets
The most retweeted (RT) tweets of the day are listed below, in order. We count the number of users who RT, not the number of times. This is to reduce the impact of spammers. RTs shown only cover retweets made on August 30th. We will recalculate the popular tweets for the whole convention once its over.
1. Mitt Romney, 3212 RTs
2. Mitt Romney, 2811 RTs
3. Paul Ryan, 2114 RTs
4. Mitt Romney, 1822 RTs
5. Mitt Romney, 1739 RTs
6. Marco Rubio, 1548 RTs
Note
We collected 606, 074 tweets from 213,882 users. Our system was modified to collect tweets from both the Streaming API and Search API. This helped avoid any dips in the graph or ‘ceiling’ issues like in Day 3. Twitter wrote a blog post giving the #GOP2012 stats as 2 million, with the peak at 14289 tweets per minute at the end of Mitt Romney’s speech. Our peak was 4125 tweets per minute. Their second peak was at 11.09 PM EST with 13267 tweets-per-minute. Our stats for that time show 3097 tweets-per-minute.
Using our combined API approach, we seem to be getting about 20-28% of the real total. But without more details on what searchterms Twitter is using, or similar graphs to ours, we can’t be sure. 95782 tweets about the convention came exclusively from Twitter Search, and were not obtained using the Streaming API. So for the sake of completeness, both APIs need to be used for major events.
Previous Reports
#GOP2012 Twitter Report Day 3
#GOP2012 is the official hashtag of the Republican National Convention currently being held at Tampa Bay, Florida from August 27th – August 30th. During this period we tracked mentions of #GOP2012, #RNC, #RNC2012, #RomneyRyan2012, #tcot, @GOPConvention, @MittRomney and @PaulRyanVP on Twitter. Starting Day 3 we also tracked #WeBuiltIt.
The highest levels of interest were for Condoleezza Rice (1232 tweets-per-minute), Susana Martinez (1353 tweets-per-minute) and Paul Ryan (1405 tweets-per-minute).
Times shown are in Eastern Daylight Time (UTC -4 due to Daylight Savings Time). Stats in this report cover Day 3 (August 29th). Click the images to view full-size.
Day Total
Tweets : 322,162
Users : 121, 009
Mentions by the minute
This graph shows tweet levels (mentions) per minute, from 6 PM – 12 AM on August 29th. Significant peaks are labeled on the graph. The peak times along with the main topic being tweeted about are listed below:
Format [Minute = Main speaker/topic being tweeted about (x users, y mentions)]
- 20:14 PM = John McCain (692 users, 718 mentions)
- 20:33 PM = Pam Bondi and Sam Olens (578 users,599 mentions)
- 21:09 PM = Rob Portman (589 users, 620 mentions)
- 21:34 PM = Tim Pawlenty (1023 users, 1090 mentions)
- 21:54 PM = Mike Huckabee (979 users, 1014 mentions)
- 21:57 PM = Condoleezza Rice (1023 users, 1059 mentions)
- 22:01 PM = Condoleezza Rice (1051 users, 1099 mentions)
- 22:07 PM = Condoleezza Rice (1189 users, 1232 mentions)
- 22:17 PM = Susana Martinez and post-speech praise for Condoleezza Rice (1307 users, 1364 mentions)
- 22:25 PM = Susana Martinez (1282 users, 1353 mentions)
- 22:35 PM = Paul Ryan (1223 users, 1269 mentions)
- 22:45 PM = Paul Ryan (1230 users, 1306 mentions)
- 22:59 PM = Paul Ryan (1380 users, 1405 mentions)
- 23:07 PM = Post-speech commentary (1357 users, 1423 mentions)
Our system had trouble keeping up with the tweet volume starting from the time Condoleezza Rice spoke. This is why the graph has many dips from that point on.
Mentions by the hour
This graph shows tweet levels (mentions) and users tweeting per hour, from 00:00 – 23:59 on August 29th. The gap between the users and mentions indicates how hot the tweeting activity was. The almost horizontal levels of tweets is an indication of a ‘ceiling’ that our system hit, because we used the Twitter Search API instead of the Streaming API. A discussion of that can be found in this blog post.
The data is shown in the table below:
| Hour | Users | Mentions |
| 0 | 9393 | 14485 |
| 1 | 4428 | 6715 |
| 2 | 2430 | 3821 |
| 3 | 1579 | 2343 |
| 4 | 1129 | 1802 |
| 5 | 1088 | 1733 |
| 6 | 1816 | 2623 |
| 7 | 2838 | 4086 |
| 8 | 3861 | 5670 |
| 9 | 6015 | 9035 |
| 10 | 6461 | 9700 |
| 11 | 6375 | 9893 |
| 12 | 6563 | 9855 |
| 13 | 6296 | 9643 |
| 14 | 6154 | 9218 |
| 15 | 6451 | 9440 |
| 16 | 6126 | 9167 |
| 17 | 6232 | 9056 |
| 18 | 6219 | 9407 |
| 19 | 10516 | 19245 |
| 20 | 14460 | 27037 |
| 21 | 19868 | 39471 |
| 22 | 28113 | 52754 |
| 23 | 28574 | 45963 |
Location of Tweeple
This map shows where geo-located tweets on the convention were coming from in the United States. Blue tweets are English, red tweets are non-English. Differences from yesterday are more tweets from Vancouver and more tweets distributed across America, noticeably from Missouri until the east coastline.
Popularity of Searchterms
The list below is a breakdown of how many users wrote tweets containing each searchterm, from 00:00 – 23:59 August 29th. It is ordered by the number of users.
- #GOP2012 = 42049 users, 89308 mentions
- #RNC = 45455 users, 80869 mentions
- #RNC2012 = 32022 users, 65012 mentions
- @MittRomney = 24588 users, 36093 mentions
- #tcot = 15304 users, 55481 mentions
- @PaulRyanVP = 14898 users, 21945 mentions
- #RomneyRyan2012 = 10618 users, 17055 mentions
- @GOPConvention = 3350 users, 5482 mentions
- #WeBuiltIt = 2272 users, 2949 mentions
Compared to yesterday, the relative ordering remains the same except for mentions of @PaulRyanVP, which moved up a place. The new hashtag we tracked, #WeBuiltIt, had relatively few mentions.
Popular tweets
The most retweeted (RT) tweets of the day are listed below, in order. We count the number of users who RT, not the number of times. This is to reduce the impact of spammers. RTs shown only cover retweets made on August 29th. We will recalculate the popular tweets for the whole convention once its over.
1. Paul Ryan, 1289 RTs
2. Paul Ryan, 1167 RTs
3. Mitt Romney, 838 RTs
4. Mitt Romney, 831 RTs
5. Paul Ryan, 828 RTs
Note
We collected 322, 162 tweets from 121,009 users. Politweet uses Twitter’s Search API to track tweets for two reasons – to take advantage of Twitter’s spam-filtering; and because the Search API is closer to the end-user experience. Twitter wrote a blog post giving the #GOP2012 stats as over 2 million, with the peak at 6669 tweets per minute during Paul Ryan’s speech. Our peak was 1405 tweets per minute. Given this big discrepancy, for Day 4 of the convention we will be using both the Search API and Streaming API.
#GOP2012 Twitter Report Day 1 & 2
#GOP2012 is the official hashtag of the Republican National Convention currently being held at Tampa Bay, Florida from August 27th – August 30th. During this period we tracked mentions of #GOP2012, #RNC, #RNC2012, #RomneyRyan2012, #tcot, @GOPConvention, @MittRomney and @PaulRyanVP on Twitter.
The highest levels of interest were for Ann Romney (1422 tweets-per-minute) and Chris Christie (1491 tweets-per-minute).
Most of Day 1 events were postponed due to weather conditions related to Hurricane Isaac, and schedule was merged into Day 2. Stats shown start from Day 2 (August 28th 2012). Times shown are in Eastern Daylight Time (UTC -4 due to Daylight Savings Time). Click the images to view full-size.
Day Total
Tweets : 287,226
Users : 103, 932
Mentions by the minute
This graph shows tweet levels (mentions) per minute, from 1 PM – 12 AM on August 28th. Significant peaks are labeled on the graph. The peak times along with the main topic being tweeted about are listed below:
Format [Minute = Main speaker/topic being tweeted about (x users, y mentions)]
- 2:01 PM = GOP 2012 starts (200 users, 215 mentions)
- 5:43 PM = Mitt Romney wins the nomination (600 users, 640 mentions)
- 7:46 PM = Mia Love and Janine Turner (428 users, 444 mentions)
- 7:47 PM = Mia Love and Janine Turner (487 users, 517 mentions)
- 8:33 PM = John Kasich (675 users, 695 mentions)
- 8:59 PM = Gov. Scott Walker (665 users, 702 mentions)
- 9:33 PM = Rick Santorum (1029 users, 1076 mentions)
- 9:35 PM = Rick Santorum(1054 users, 1093 mentions)
- 10:17 PM = Ann Romney (1360 users, 1422 mentions)
- 10:41 PM = Chris Christie (1427 users, 1484 mentions)
- 10:50 PM = Chris Christie (teacher’s unions) (1230 users, 1262 mentions)
- 11:00 PM = Chris Christie (asking everyone to stand up for Mitt Romney, also praise for Chris Christie’s speech) (1466 users, 1491 mentions)
- 11:20 PM = Post-convention commentary (916 users, 961 mentions)
Mentions by the hour
This graph shows tweet levels (mentions) and users tweeting per hour, from 00:00 – 23:59 on August 28th. The gap between the users and mentions indicates how hot the tweeting activity was. The data is shown in the table below:
| Hour | Users | Mentions |
| 0 | 1032 | 1380 |
| 1 | 645 | 903 |
| 2 | 432 | 615 |
| 3 | 320 | 487 |
| 4 | 246 | 410 |
| 5 | 265 | 384 |
| 6 | 388 | 549 |
| 7 | 889 | 1239 |
| 8 | 1334 | 1871 |
| 9 | 2291 | 3060 |
| 10 | 2956 | 4130 |
| 11 | 3044 | 4084 |
| 12 | 4509 | 6514 |
| 13 | 6708 | 10594 |
| 14 | 6846 | 11374 |
| 15 | 7636 | 12649 |
| 16 | 8553 | 14825 |
| 17 | 11219 | 20529 |
| 18 | 9939 | 16099 |
| 19 | 10621 | 18871 |
| 20 | 15748 | 29539 |
| 21 | 20789 | 42260 |
| 22 | 26218 | 48011 |
| 23 | 24096 | 36849 |
Location of Tweeple
This map shows where geo-located tweets on the convention were coming from in the United States. Blue tweets are English, red tweets are non-English.
Popularity of Searchterms
The list below is a breakdown of how many users wrote tweets containing each searchterm, from 00:00 – 23:59 August 28th. It is ordered by the number of users.
- #GOP2012 = 39644 users, 92329 mentions
- #RNC = 38240 users, 71349 mentions
- #RNC2012 = 27557 users, 57593 mentions
- @MittRomney = 24638 users, 39126 mentions
- #tcot = 10625 users, 34678 mentions
- #RomneyRyan2012 = 8030 users, 14230 mentions
- @PaulRyanVP = 5230 users, 6750 mentions
- @GOPConvention = 4548 users, 7839 mentions
Popular tweets
The most retweeted (RT) tweets of the day are listed below, in order. We count the number of users who RT, not the number of times. This is to reduce the impact of spammers. RTs shown only cover retweets made on August 28th.
1. Sarah Silverman, 1514 RTs
2. Mitt Romney, 1011 RTs
3. Ann Romney, 952 RTs
4. Mitt Romney, 877 RTs
5. Paul Ryan, 780 RTs
Note
At least 287,226 tweets about the GOP convention were tweeted by 103,932 users. Politweet uses Twitter’s Search API to track tweets for two reasons – to take advantage of Twitter’s spam-filtering; and because the Search API is closer to the end-user experience. However this means some genuine users are sometimes filtered out and their tweets are not obtained. Sometimes live tweets are missing from search results and only appear later, which causes them to be missed by our search.
For example despite the #RNC tag, Sarah Silverman’s original tweet was not found in our data, but all the retweets were. This is not to imply that Sarah Silverman was blocked, but a little missing data is just the nature of the Twitter search engine during live events. Journalists should note that the real totals are actually slightly higher.
Chris Christie delivered the highest number of tweets. For an idea of how big the crowd was while he was speaking, here is a screen capture from Youtube:
Update #1 (31st August 2012): Stats on this page are not ‘slightly lower’ as reported, but significantly lower. We caught on to the size of the discrepancy after Twitter wrote a blog post about the event. Explanation on the reason for this discrepancy is in this blog post. However the peaks on the graph are still relevant, and do indicate which speakers were most popular.
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