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Top 10 World Cup Twitter Trends
by Ranju Chaudhary on Jun.26, 2010, under What's Happening?
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It’s another round of World Cup Twitter trends, and we’re seeing some interesting stats on how fans are tweeting about their favorite teams, players, and arch rivals.
Similarly to last week’s stats, all of the national teams trended at some point in the past seven days, and 74 players hitTwitter’s top 10. And while some coaches and managers were trending last week, this is the first time that several referees were singled out, mostly with ire from fans over unfavorable calls.
We’ve also seen more Twitter action around certain World Cup
groups where the matches have been more competitive. And interestingly, some of the most-tweeted teams are not the best ones. Often, they’re teams that have been eliminated from competition, followed by waves of disappointed tweets from heartbroken fans.
Below is the breakdown of the most-tweeted teams and players this week, graciously compiled by Liz Pullen ofWhat The Trend.
Remember, these rankings are not about team and player abilities, but reflect an aggregation of hotly discussed topics related to them.
Most-Tweeted World Cup Teams
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Rank
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National Team
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Points
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1
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Portugal
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2334
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2
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Mexico
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1991
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3
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Netherlands
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1605
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4
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USA
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1368
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5
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Italy
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1236
|
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6
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Brazil
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984
|
|
7
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Ivory Coast
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888
|
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8
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Germany
|
810
|
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9
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France
|
792
|
|
10
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South Africa
|
741
|
Most-Tweeted World Cup Players
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Rank
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Player
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Team
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Points
|
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1
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Guillermo Franco
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Mexico
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1875
|
|
2
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Cristiano Ronaldo
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Portugal
|
1740
|
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3
|
Landon Donovan
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USA
|
978
|
|
4
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Nicolas Anelka
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France
|
591
|
|
5
|
Luis Fabiano
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Brazil
|
576
|
|
6
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Harry Kewell
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Australia
 |
213
|
|
7
|
Martin Palermo
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Argentina
|
207
|
|
8
|
Wesley Sneijder
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Netherlands
|
180
|
|
9
|
Raul Meireles
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Portugal
|
174
|
|
10
|
Fernando Torres
|
Spain
|
168
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People Love to Tweet About the iPhone and How they Hate AT&T
by Ranju Chaudhary on Jun.26, 2010, under Trends, What's Happening?
Initial reactions to the iPhone 4 have been pretty spectacular, with an estimated 1.5 million units sold during the first day andlines that lasted hours, but what was reception like on Twitter? While we know that the World Cup and President Obama topped the iPhone 4 pre-buzz, we still wanted to take a look at some deeper Twitter analysis.
Real-time social media tracker Trendrr was nice enough to offer us some data of the iPhone 4 and also AT&T over various periods of time.
Trendrr’s analysis covers both quantity and sentiment analysis, and we’ll examine those data points.
iPhone Tweets By the Numbers
Looking at the data on mentions of “iPhone” from November 2008 to the present, a few points really stood out. First, we should note that as of right now, Trendrr does not have full data for any days after June 22, 2010. We have hourly statistics (see below), but not full data info for an entire day.
| iPhone (Matching Twitter Posts per Day) |
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Key:
iphone (source: Matching Twitter Posts per Day)
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Note the two gigantic spikes in the graph. The first occurs on June 17, 2009. This was the day that the iOS (or iPhone OS) 3.0 software was released. The next spike was on June 7, 2010, the official announcement of the iPhone 4. On June 7, Trendrr says that 653,000 tweets containing the phrase “iPhone” were sent.
Next, let’s take a look at an hour-by-hour examination, which started on Saturday and ran through the 25th.
| iPhone (Matching Twitter Posts per Hour) |
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Key:
iphone (source: Matching Twitter Posts per Hour)
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Again, note the big spikes throughout the day of the 24th, with the phrase “iPhone” peaking at 55,537 tweets per hour.
AT&T and iPhone Sentiment Analysis
We find sentiment analysis really interesting, and the figures for the iPhone 4 offer some food for thought. While some have expected the overall net sentiment to be positive, the results are actually quite different.
| iPhone (Twitter Sentiment) |
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Key:
iphone (source: Twitter Sentiment % Negative)
iphone (source: Twitter Sentiment % Positive)
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Sentiment started out more positive than not for the term “iPhone,” but negative remarks started showing up on Monday, June 21. At that time, 25% of all tweets about the iPhone were deemed “negative.” However, this was before the iPhone 4 started to arrive to users, so we’re not really sure what contributed to the negativity, other than overexposure, perhaps.
The negative tweets died down again, and we started to see more positive tweets on June 22 and June 23, with positive and negative mentions in roughly equal amounts on Wednesday. Here’s where it gets interesting: 28% of the iPhone-related tweets on June 24, 2010 were negative. How many of these negative tweets were related to long lines or sold out stores, we don’t know.
As of today, June, 25, the positive tweets have edged past the negative tweets once again.
Moving onto everyone’s favorite whipping boy, AT&T. AT&T is not a popular company. In fact, it’s an oft-cited reason that people don’t get an iPhone. Still, looking at the data that goes back to May, it does look like the company had a few bright spots.
| AT&T (Twitter Sentiment) |
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Key:
at&t (source: Twitter Sentiment % Positive)
at&t (source: Twitter Sentiment % Negative)
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We’re not really sure why AT&T had such big spikes on May 22, 2010 and June 6, 2010, but those are the only two days the positives outweighed the negatives. Not surprisingly, on June 15, 2010, the day the iPhone became available for pre-order, AT&T had a 35% negativity percentage. Maybe it was the failed activation system.
The negativity cooled down a bit, but as of June 24, 2010, the negative tweets had reached 44%, according to Trendrr.
