Posts Tagged ‘twitter’


Christmas number 1 single – update

DEC. 18
2009

The other day we made a blog post about Twitter activity per hour for Rage Against The Machine – here is an update, and a comparison to Twitter activity for Joe McElderry.

Who’s going to get the No.1 single this Christmas?

Twitter activity per hour - Rage Against The Machine and Joe McElderry

Twitter activity per hour - Rage Against The Machine and Joe McElderry - Click for larger view

Rage Against The Machine Twitter Activity

DEC. 15
2009

If you’ve been reading the news recently, you’ll know that Rage Against The Machine are heading to beat X Factor’s Joe McElderry for the Christmas number one.

Check out the recent activity on Twitter for people tweeting about Rage Against The Machine. The chart below shows number of mentions per hour:

Rage Against The Machine - Twitter Activity

Notice the daily variation due to time zones causing regular peaks when people are awake and tweeting.

Will tomorrows peak be even bigger than today? Sign up for a free musicmetric Essentials demo and find out :-)

Interesting facts: Happiness on twitter by day

DEC. 4
2009

Not that relevant to music, but this graph is pretty cool. We ran a really basic text extraction on 11 Million tweets logged by our servers during the past week, and plotted the proportion of messages each day that contain ’ :) ‘

It’s been corrected for varying popularity of twitter on different days.

Saturday is a happy day, and it’s tomorrow – so cheer up!

I should mention, our sentiment analysis algorithms at musicmetric are rather more advanced than this :-)