Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts
Tuesday, 27 August 2019

The Boycott of The Sun in Merseyside 'has led to lower levels of Euroscepticism'

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"The report, authored by London School of Economics behavioural political scientist Florian Foos and Zurich University’s Daniel Bischof...
Tuesday, 13 March 2018

Fake news spreads more quickly than genuine news

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"We investigated the differential diffusion of all of the verified true and false news stories distributed on Twitter from 2006 to 2017...
Thursday, 15 June 2017

17% of Daily Mail readers who voted in the June 2017 General Election voted for Labour

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Source:   YouGov, 13th June 2017
Thursday, 29 September 2016

The first Clinton-Trump Debate was seen by a record 84m TV viewers in the US

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"The first televised skirmish between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump broke the all-time TV audience record for a presidential debate,...
Wednesday, 21 January 2015

The State of the Union 2015

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Not 'media' stats as such, but this is a very impressive and well structured document The 2015 Enhanced State of the Union ...
Friday, 30 May 2014

Facebook's 'I'm a Voter' feature encouraged 340,000 extra people to vote in the US in 2010

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"Facebook is rolling out its "I'm a voter" feature worldwide, after the app's success in the Indian elections in earl...
Tuesday, 15 April 2014

Sales of George Orwell's 1984 rose 6,000% following the Edward Snowden revelations

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"Sales of George Orwell's 1984 have shot up following revelations that the United States' National Security Agency (NSA) is acc...
Thursday, 6 June 2013

At least 2 million Tweets about the Turkish protests were posted on 31st May 2013

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"The social media response to and the role of social media in the protests has been phenomenal. Since 4pm local time yesterday, at leas...
Wednesday, 8 May 2013

There were 1.4 million tweets mentioning Sir Alex Ferguson within an hour of his retirement

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"If you want an idea of the reverence with which Sir Alex Ferguson is held, Twitter has an easy guideline: more than Margaret Thatcher,...
Wednesday, 6 March 2013

Hugo Chavez had a staff of 200 to help run his Twitter account

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"It is known mainly for transmitting celebrity trivia and narcissism, but in the hands of Hugo Chávez Twitter has become something else...
Tuesday, 13 November 2012

The US election set a new mobile traffic record for BBC News Online

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"BBC coverage of the US election, which my colleague Jon Williams trailed here a couple of days ago, brought the highest traffic to BBC...

Election night on Instagram

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Click to enlarge Source:   Instagram blog, 7th November 2012
Thursday, 8 November 2012

Barack Obama's 2012 Election celebration picture is the most Liked picture ever on Facebook

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"Shortly after President Obama won re-election last night, a simple photo of the president embracing his wife was posted on his Faceboo...
Wednesday, 7 November 2012

The 2012 US Election Night on Twitter

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"One hundred million votes and 31 million Tweets later, Election Day 2012 has come to a close. As the results of the election were call...
Thursday, 4 October 2012

There were 10.3 million Tweets discussing the first Presidential debate in October 2012

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Click to enlarge Source:   The Atlantic Wire, 4th October 2012 Related - The numbers for the first UK debate in April 2010
Monday, 31 October 2011

7 of the 10 most followed people on Twitter are women

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"# Name (Screen Name) Followers 1. Lady Gaga (ladygaga) 15,117,972 2. Justin Bieber (justinbieber) 13,868,314 3. Katy Perr...
Tuesday, 29 March 2011

50% of tweets with links are generated by just 20,000 twitter users

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"We study several longstanding questions in media communications research, in the context of the microblogging service Twitter, regardi...
Thursday, 4 November 2010

US House and Senate election winners generally had more fans than the losers

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"With most of Election Night’s races already decided, the Facebook political team took a look at whether Facebook “likes” did help pred...
Friday, 16 April 2010

There were 29 tweets per second discussing the first UK election leadership debate

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"Final stats: total tweets: 184,396; average frequency 29.06 tweets per second; total tweeters: 36,483" Source: Tweet from Tweetm...