A summary of #Budget11

During #Budget11 we processed 31,831 tweets. The average rate of posts was 3.29 tweets per second.

The most tweeted parts of the budget were the announcement of a 1p per litre fuel duty cut, which peaked at 9.5 tweets per second, followed by corporation tax announcements at 8.8 tweets per second, while the announcement of 21 enterprise zones registered 7.5 tweets per second and the revised OBR growth figures (2011 growth revised down to 1.7%) saw 5.57 tweets per second.

Other parts of the budget that registered a higher than average frequency of tweets include mentions of inflation, pensions, inheritance tax (reduction for leaving 10% of estate to charity), green investment bank, tax allowance (up £630 to £8105), bank levy and changes to the tax system.

Sentiment around the budget was fundamentally unchanged - started at 2.9, ended at 3.0 (on a scale of 1-5, where 5 is most positive).

Ed Miliband’s response to the budget peaked at 5.1 tweets per second around the term iPod.

Posted at Wed, Mar 23rd 2011, 14:30
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Powered by data, filtered by experts - introducing the Tweetminster News Platform

Tweetminster’s goal has always been to use data to help people better connect with the influencers, trends, news and opinion that shape current affairs.

During the past few months we’ve been busy connecting the dots between the various technologies, algorithms and tools we’ve built over the past two years to develop a news platform that is curated by data and filtered by experts.

The Tweetminster News Platform uses data to discover and organise high-quality content and relevant trends that surround topics and interests, making them easily accessible and immediately useful:

We identify influencers and experts within any topic;

We analyse these networks to determine the content influencers are sharing the most;

We dynamically aggregate this set of highly recommended content into a single magazine interface.

The content that is generated and how it’s presented is entirely driven by data and completely free from human or editorial intervention. The new interface uses sharing data (the popularity of shared links within networks of influencers) to determine the layout and typography of the page. The platform is optimised for the web, tablets and smart-phones.

Our goal is to use data to help you find high-quality news and content about your topics and issues of interest - filtered by experts, easily accessible and made available on any platform, anytime.

We’re excited to announce that we’ll be bringing this model to new markets, and venturing into new topic areas beyond politics and current affairs. Although we started with politics and current affairs, we’ve always been a media company. Today sees the end of this development journey and the beginning of a new chapter as we expand into new subject areas and markets. 

Our focus is on people’s interests and tracking the most influential news and opinion. Throughout 2011, we will be launching newly branded products as a series of stand-alone platforms.

Posted at Thu, Feb 17th 2011, 11:00
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