This page tracks the sentiment of @reply & tweets mentioning an MLAs name. The data is collected every week so graphs of an MLAs sentiment over time can be made.
The amount of positive, negative & neutral sentiments are tracked each week for every MLA on Twitter. View an individual MLAs stats page to view their sentiment graph.
The charts below total the sentimate of a parties MLAs, so we can compare the overal sentimate by party.
Politwitter scans all the tweets mentioning an MLA each week and uses a dictionary of positive and negative words to determine the sentimate of each tweet.
This method can never produce 100% accurate data for every tweet, but can give a general impression.
percentage of positive tweets compared to negative tweets
Party Sentiment Log
all MLAs sentiment stats combined by party.
| party | positive | negative | ratio | % |
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