Comment: What the Twitter data tells us from the Leaders' Debate

What can we learn from a minute by minute analysis of the tweets surrounding the Leaders' Debate? John Elliott crunches the data.

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Towards the end of Sunday night's Australian election debate between Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbott, I captured almost 2,000 related Twitter tweets per minute and over 50,000 were captured during the hour.

This provided me with a mountain of data. So first off, let's look at the debate minute-by-minute.


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