Ireland vs England rugby match twitter analysis
Following on from the popular Ireland versus France and Ireland versus Italy twoud (twitter cloud) analysis, this weekend saw the Ireland versus England RBS 6 nations rugby game in Croke Park, Dublin. The hash tag used this time on twitter to mark everyone’s tweets about the match was #ireeng.
Click on the individual twoud images to see the larger versions.
Prematch chatter
17:36 – 17:49
17:50 – 17:59
18:00 – 18:09
PENALTY Ireland 3-0 England
18:10 – 18:18
PENALTY Ireland 3-3 England
HALF TIME
18:31 – 18:39
DROP-GOAL Ireland 6-3 England
18:40 – 18:49
18:50 – 18:59
TRY Ireland 11-3 England
19:00 – 19:09
PENALTY Ireland 11-6 England
19:10 – 19:19
PENALTY – Ireland 14-6 England
19:20 – 19:23
TRY Ireland 14-13 England
POST MATCH














March 1st, 2009 at 10:13 pm
Great work Patrick – very nice
March 1st, 2009 at 10:24 pm
Ditto ^^^
Loving the big “Finally” in the 4th one.
March 1st, 2009 at 10:39 pm
wow great insight. The chatter was insane
March 2nd, 2009 at 9:21 am
This would be great to see animated, along with some audio highlights
March 2nd, 2009 at 9:43 am
Nice work Patrick
March 2nd, 2009 at 11:01 am
Nice one Patrick. I’m looking forward to your game by game twouds when Wimbledon starts
March 2nd, 2009 at 8:25 pm
I cannot see the word ‘ROG’ without immediately going into Ross O’Carroll Kelly mode.
Yaw, the ROG is, loike, totally off his game, y’know?
Loike that noight when I so totally could have pulled Kathy French. Before she, loike, totally died though.
March 3rd, 2009 at 8:06 am
[...] Ireland vs England rugby match twitter analysis – patrickphelan.ie Not a huge amount of useful info here but I like the way I can get a very high-level view of reactions to the match in, what, 30 seconds. And this could be viral. (tags: forblog visualisation microblogging twitter twoud twittercloud rugby) Posted in socialmedia. [...]
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:32 am
That’s really cool – I love the fact that BOD appears as the shorthand for Brian O’Driscoll when he scored, and ROG for Ronan O’Gara.
(Plus I won £5 from a colleague on the game)
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:43 am
Cheers for all the super comments folks! Keep the ideas coming. I’ve plenty I want to add to the application!
March 4th, 2009 at 1:12 pm
[...] did a cool twoud of the Ireland England rugby match last [...]
March 18th, 2009 at 10:12 am
[...] Patrick Phelan ran graphs on this later on to see the frequency of words in those tagged messages. [...]
March 18th, 2009 at 7:17 pm
Beautiful work
really beautiful