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Twitter sentiment towards Brian Cowen – 88% negative

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Although this figure may come as no surprise to most but almost 9 out of 10 tweets concerning our incumbent Taoiseach Brian Cowen are negative in nature according to TweetFeel. TweetFeel is a service that combines real-time Twitter search with sentiment detection algorithms to determine whether a tweet is positive or negative.

We conducted our analysis for the keyword ‘Brian Cowen’ a short time ago with results showing that 88% of a selection of tweets mentioning Brian Cowen were seen as being negative.

Some of the negative tweets included:

https://twitter.com/malachybrowne/status/6484228279635968″ data-datetime=”2010-11-21T23:08:55+00:00

https://twitter.com/neilbrazil/status/6832827907706880″ data-datetime=”2010-11-22T22:14:07+00:00

However, we believe that this 88% figure should really be higher as the few tweets that TweetFeel actually thought of as positive really should have been flagged negative:

https://twitter.com/aideenblackwood/status/6450220552421376″ data-datetime=”2010-11-21T20:53:47+00:00

Let us know your thoughts in the comments.

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Albizu Garcia

Albizu Garcia is the Co-Founder and CEO of Gain -- a marketing technology company that automates the social media and content publishing workflow for agencies and social media managers, their clients and anyone working in teams.

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