cheguevara
12-08-2011, 09:59 AM
Ron Paul is the exception to the rule on Twitter — comments about him are mostly positive, while for all the other Republican hopefuls and President Barack Obama, the twitter-verse has gone negative, according to a study of more than 20 million tweets about the 2012 race.
According to a report by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism, which examined tweets about the presidential race from May 2 to Nov. 27, the discourse on Twitter about the 2012 candidates are more opinionated and generally more negative than in the blogosphere and in the news.
The one candidate from the GOP field who fared the best in Twitter coverage was Paul, who enjoyed the most favorable coverage from all of the presidential candidates examined. Some 55 percent of the 140-character messages about him online have been positive, while just 15 percent were negative.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1211/70072.html#ixzz1fxImssPq
According to a report by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism, which examined tweets about the presidential race from May 2 to Nov. 27, the discourse on Twitter about the 2012 candidates are more opinionated and generally more negative than in the blogosphere and in the news.
The one candidate from the GOP field who fared the best in Twitter coverage was Paul, who enjoyed the most favorable coverage from all of the presidential candidates examined. Some 55 percent of the 140-character messages about him online have been positive, while just 15 percent were negative.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1211/70072.html#ixzz1fxImssPq