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.

A new poll suggests Tony Abbott is catching up, as Kevin Rudd continues to lead as preferred PM.

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.