TWITTER REPORT: The Most Talked About Politicians & Issues From the 2nd Presidential Debate
Nairobi, Kenya, Land and Corruption features heavily on social media i.e. Twitter and Facebook.
Opinion Yetu, a technology company has gathered and released data regarding mentions and engagements on social media in the days preceding the elections as well as hours before and after the historical second presidential debate.
According to data on the number of mentions of presidential candidates between the dates 11th February and 26th February 2013, Abduba Diba (ARC) was the most mentioned with 44284+ mentions followed by Uhuru 37562+, Raila 15735+, Karua 8099+, Muite 7357+, Mudavadi 5545+, Kenneth 4801+ and Kiyapi 720+.
On 25th February between the period 1800hrs and 2300hrs as Kenya watched the second presidential debate, Abduba Dida still topped the most mentions except when the land issue was the point of discussion when Deputy Prime minister Uhuru Kenyatta had the most mentions.
In total, the two candidates had more than half the total mentions of presidential candidates during the 5 hours that the analysis has been focussed on.
On topic analysis, land was the most debated issue on social media receiving 13,726 mentions at the peak of the discussions and an overall total of over 28,500 mentions in the period between 1800hrs and 2300hrs.
“Opinion Yetu systems recorded the peak of use of social media as the land issue was the topic of discussion where 13,726 mentions were captured at about the same period when Uhuru Kenyatta overtook Abduba Dida as the most mentioned presidential candidate on social media,” says Stephen Odunga, lead developer and CEO Opinion Yetu.
Corruption was the second most discussed topic on social media receiving 5,560 mentions at the peak of the debate while minimum wage received 2,357 mentions.
Overall there were over 124,103 plus updates shared in the period between 6.00 p.m. and midnight as captured by Opinion Yetu systems.
Opinion Yetu will continue to collect election related data in the days preceding the election with the final analysed data from the first online opinion poll in Kenya expected on 28 February with voting set to close today.
