social media cascade
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Analysis of the cascade of social media activity on 14th Sept 2010. It’s impact and the effect of inactionTRANSCRIPT
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Analysis of a Tweet
An Taoiseach records radio interview on Morning Ireland 14th
Sept 2010
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Brian Cowen - Morning Ireland 14th Sept 2010
• 8:45am Brian Cowen’s interview is broadcast, live from Galway• 8:55am www.Politics.ie members begin posting and 3 days later 7
separate discussions, with up to 5,000 views each• 9:16am Simon Coveney Tweets. Re-tweeted 73 times in 2 days• 9:46am www.boards.ie begins Cowen discussions. >1,000 posts,
viewed over 55,000 times in 2 days. • Afternoon: Parody songs and video posted on Youtube. 150,000 views
in 2 days• 15 hours following the interview, 457 articles were published in 26
countries.
• Sources from within the FF party in Galway, suggest that there was shock and confusion over the impact of the interview
• By the time Brian Cowen appears on the Six o’clock news on the 15th, the public perception and impact was cemented
There was no obvious attempt to manage the social media onslaught
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Social media cascade
GLOBAL PRESS
Minutes
Seconds
Hours
1 Day
2 Days
Taoiseach apologises on 6-1 news
Number of views
Interview
Message boards
Tweets
Video distribution
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Analysis of impact by medium
Message boards Global press