Ron Paul Wins GOP Twitter Primary, Pew Study Shows

[PauliticsPolitics]

Some news articles about it:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/08/ron-paul-gop-twitter_n_1135001.html
(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/08/ron-paul-gop-twitter_n_1135001.html)http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1211/70072.html
http://www.thestatecolumn.com/articles/study-ron-paul-leads-president-obama-on-twitter/#ixzz1fxzQvy35
(http://www.thestatecolumn.com/articles/study-ron-paul-leads-president-obama-on-twitter/#ixzz1fxzQvy35)
snippet from huff:

Pew's Project for Excellence for Journalism, in a new study analyzing more than 20 million election-related tweets from May through November, found that Paul "fared far better" than any other Republican candidate. Paul was referred to positively in 55 percent of the 1.1 million assessments about him on Twitter studied during this period. Only 15 percent of those assessments were negative, and 30 percent were neutral.
"This treatment of Paul stands in contrast to that of most of the GOP field, for whom Twitter has been a tough neighborhood," the study found. "Five of Paul's seven GOP rivals have had negative opinions on Twitter outstrip positive ones by roughly 2-1 or more."

More extensive report at Pew site:
http://www.journalism.org/analysis_report/twitter_and_campaign

http://www.journalism.org/sites/journalism.org/files/u29/Lead_tone.png (http://www.journalism.org/analysis_report/twitter_and_campaign)

[Fermli]

the 2nd link has more pages. Almost didn't see that.

Here's some more charts/graphs:
http://www.journalism.org/sites/journalism.org/files/u29/lead_table.png
http://www.journalism.org/sites/journalism.org/files/u29/Paul_amount_of_coverage.png

[Fermli]

The CNN debate on Nov 22nd really spiked up Paul's coverage on twitter.

[mport1]

Very interesting stuff.

[RDM]

That is interesting. We need more Twitter action(on YouTube videos our grassroots create).

[bluesc]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xtl2ZuJpG9M

[PauliticsPolitics]

That is interesting. We need more Twitter action(on YouTube videos our grassroots create).
Yea, it wouldn't hurt to get our volume up.
But it is great that Ron is tweeted about so positively on average, and much more positively than anyone else.
It shouldn't surprise anyone here, but it's good that other people occasionally recognize this (especially reputable-ish sources like Pew.)

[green73]

cool. i think his numbers are even better than that.

[Bruno]

Oh, how tweet it is! :D

[Matthew5]

We runz teh intertubes!!!1!

[Danemicus]

As someone who's very active on Twitter, I'd have to say that the article is definitely accurate. Avid and positive support on Twitter for other candidates is very sparse indeed. In contrast, there are lots of accounts spreading articles, interviews and quotes to promote Ron Paul. It's wonderful to see.

[sailingaway]

very good stuff!