The timeline chart also illustrates the relative amount of tweets for the most-mentioned riders – @vincenzonibali, @marcelkittel and @markcavendish.
We just covered the Wimbledon Ladies‘ tournament, and here follows the equivalent for the Gentlemen’s.
The graph below shows the relative mentions 10 most mentioned Gentlemen over the 2 weeks of the tournament. There’s a key at below that graph, and you can also hover over any stream you’ll be able to see the person that relates to.
You can clearly see the rise of Australian Nick Kyrgios through the rounds, with the defeat of Rafael Nadal in the fourth round. Also in a similar fashion was the rise of Canadian Milos Raonic, who nearly joined his compatriot, Euginie Bouchard in becoming the first Canadians into a Wimbledon final.
Roger Federer’s support on Twitter was very strong throughout, and even though he didn’t win, he is clearly a crowd favourite, and at least beat Novak on Twitter.
Again we have created a visualisation showing the last week of activity for the finalists. Below you can see a heatmap of mentions around world, a chart showing the volumes over the week, and at the side we’re displaying the top tweets.
There are controls to change the speed or pause the animation, and you can also view at your own speed by using the sidebar to the right of the tweets.
Whilst many have been focused on the games happening in Brazil, there has been another international tournament playing out in England – the pinnacle of Tennis, Wimbledon. This year saw the greatest interaction with Twitter yet, and in particular people getting behind the underdogs.
Whilst many have been focused on the games happening in Brazil, there has been another international tournament playing out in England – the pinnacle of Tennis, Wimbledon. This year saw the greatest interaction with Twitter yet, and in particular people getting behind the underdogs.
This was particularly obvious with Nick Kyrgios from Australia and Eugenie Bouchard from Canada. Both generating a huge amount of support, not just from their home countries, but across the globe.
We’ve used a couple of our new visualisation tools to get some insight into the discussion on Twitter over the two weeks of the tournament.
The graph below shows the percentage of mentions on a daily basis for the 10 most mentioned Ladies over the 2 weeks of the tournament. There’s a key at below that graph, and you can also hover over it to get more detail.
Particularly notable is how most of the early discussion centred around one of the favourites, Venus Williams, but that quickly tapered off when she was eliminated.
Discussion about Maria Sharapova has always been a big topic during grand slams, but in this case, even after she was eliminated, she kept rising due to the Sachin Tendulkar incident.
For the two finalists, Eugenie Bouchard may have been beaten in the final, but overall she had the most mentions of any Ladies’ player. Discussion about Eugenie grew steadily throughout the tournament, markedly more than the winner, Petra Kvitova. There was very little relative discussion about Kvitova until the final itself.
We also created a visualisation showing the last week of activity for the two finalists. Below you can see a heatmap of mentions around world, a chart showing the volumes over the week, and at the side we’re displaying the top tweets.
There are controls to change the speed or pause the animation, and you can also view at your own speed by using the sidebar to the right of the tweets.
You can see the Gentlemen’s post here
The gong goes to Metallica whose Saturday night performance even inspired a volume of tweets in the sign of the horns!
Close behind was Dolly Parton, who trounced Sunday headliners Kasabian and cool kids Arcade Fire, Lana Del Rey and Haim.
In case you missed it: Last week we showed how the excitement built up for Glastonbury.
Below is one of our newer style visualisations we are trialling that shows the extent of the coverage over the last 2 weeks, a graph showing the peaks and troughs (it was a massive start!), along with some of the most popular tweets as time progresses.
We’ve been tracking the excitement build up this week, which you can see in our new style visualisation below.
This visualisation shows where people have been mentioning Glastonbury this week (and also mentioning they are packing their wellies).
At the bottom there’s also a chart showing the volumes over the week, and at the side we’re displaying the top tweets.
Congratulations to Brazil on winning the first game of the World Cup. It looks like most of the world was behind them.
Congratulations to Brazil on winning the first game of the World Cup.
It looks like most of the world was behind them.
We have also geo-fenced every stadium and are picking up great images from supporters there.
According to Twitter (who know these things), the two official hashtags for the 2014 World Cup are #WorldCup and #Brazil2014. But we are seeing a lot of others being used around the world.
According to Twitter (who know these things), the two official hashtags for the 2014 World Cup are #WorldCup and #Brazil2014.
But we are seeing a lot of others being used around the world.
We’ve collected 2.8m tweets from the last 72 hours, and found the following hashtags to be the most popular. The official hashtags are 1st and 5th.
Hashtag use varies a lot by region. The visualisation shows daily activity for the main hashtags over the last 4 weeks.
To better highlight regional differences we’re not displaying #worldcup, since that is the most widespread.
Spanish-speaking countries are using #brasil2014 more, French-speaking countries prefer #cm2014, and Portuguese-speaking countries are using #copa2014.
It’s 1 year since the NSA leaks, and we’ve used our analytics and visualisation tools to crunch 10,146,900 tweets that mention Edward Snowden.
It’s 1 year since the NSA leaks, and we’ve used our analytics and visualisation tools to crunch 10,146,900 tweets that mention Edward Snowden.
It seems the first ever tweet to mention Edward Snowden was from Janine Gibson (3 minutes before Glenn Greenwald himself).
The whistleblower behind the Guardian’s NSA Files revels himself as Edward Snowden. By @ggreenwald. http://t.co/NZIYj2JJiM
— Janine Gibson (@janinegibson) June 9, 2013
MEET OUR SOURCE, in his own words: Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind revelations of NSA surveillance http://t.co/tYQKJJDhK1
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) June 9, 2013
We created a visualisation to show how, once his identity became public, the mentions of Snowden quickly overshadowed the mentions of the NSA and Prism.
We found 8,836,300 unique accounts that had mentioned Snowden in a tweet. Here are the 10 that were most retweeted or mentioned with regards to Snowden.
Below are the top tweets, hashtags, words and urls.
