Tweeting the NHS

Collected on 11th March 2013

#NHS Twitter Collected on 11th March 2013

UK nhs twitter conversation 11032013

Approx 5,000 active Twitter user accounts in the UK discussing the National Health Service (NHS) on the 11th of March 2013. Most tweets are directed to @Jeremy_Hunt Conservative MP for South West Surrey and Secretary of State for Health – but does he reply? or is he even reading the tweets?

uk nhs twitter conversation closeup 1103013

I have also conducted a time series of the tweets – approx 410,000 collected from 3rd of March 2013 to 11th March 2013 on the NHS.

time series for 410000 tweets containing NHS

I have also conducted sentiment analysis of the tweets – approx 410,000 collected from 3rd of March 2013 to 11th March 2013 on the NHS.

Average post sentiment for 410000 tweets containing NHS

Mapping of Twitter – Gephi

Time series and Sentiment analysis – Webometrics

 updated the #NHS  and NHS Twitter User account number to 11,000 to create this image. As there are over 400,000 tweets associated with the 11,000 users I think my data my have a number of multiple counts for the same tweets. Something I can look at in the future – removing similar content.

NHS tweets

NHS Twitter Conversations 13 March 2013

PDF version also available – NHS twitter 2013

21,000 Active Twitter Accounts in the UK

21,000 Active Twitter Accounts in the UK discussing the NHS

Mapping the UK Twittersphere March 2013 contains the ongoing “playing with” twitter archiving and analysis that I have been engaged in over the last few months. Placed here for my own needs.

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