Leaders Debates; round 1

[Ali Fisher]

The leaders are no doubt frantically preparing for the next debate, it is worth a brief moment to reflect on what the first debate might have told us:

1) Novelty factor was in full effect, leaders debate was the most popular phrase relating to the UK election on Twitter while the debates were on, followed by the respective candidate names.

2) Focusing on Tweets relating to a specific candidate, unsurprisingly their names are closely
followed by their fellow candidates.

3) No great surprise so far - each party has an opportunity to encapsulate their
offer in a tweetable phrase, so far not so successful.

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[indraadnan]

This was great Ali - do you want to update? Happy to push it around if you do..