{"id":4251,"date":"2012-03-16T17:28:08","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T22:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=4251"},"modified":"2012-03-16T17:29:08","modified_gmt":"2012-03-16T22:29:08","slug":"whos-up-whos-down-on-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=4251","title":{"rendered":"@MentionMachine: Who\u2019s up, who\u2019s down on Twitter?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"thickbox\" title=\"\" href=\"press-this.php?ajax=photo_thickbox&amp;i=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Frf%2Fimage_606w%2FWashingtonPost%2FContent%2FBlogs%2Felection-2012%2FImages%2Fmm-newt-graph.png%3Fuuid%3DZvJgxDWbEeGDawjE3mNt5A&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Felection-2012%2Fpost%2Fatmentionmachine-tracks-the-2012-candidates-whos-up-whos-down-on-twitter%2F2011%2F12%2F20%2FgIQAHC9s7O_blog.html&amp;width=625&amp;height=427\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"img36\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/rf\/image_606w\/WashingtonPost\/Content\/Blogs\/election-2012\/Images\/mm-newt-graph.png?uuid=ZvJgxDWbEeGDawjE3mNt5A\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reading the Washington Post I was annoyed by a panel at the bottom of my screen with their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/election-2012\/post\/atmentionmachine-tracks-the-2012-candidates-whos-up-whos-down-on-twitter\/2011\/12\/20\/gIQAHC9s7O_blog.html\">@MentionMachine tracks the presidential candidates: Who\u2019s up, who\u2019s down on Twitter?<\/a>. The @MentionMachine tracks Twitter mentions using the Twitter API and also media mentions using Trove. This is real-time social media text analysis. The Washington Post blog page on @MentionMachine argues that &#8220;Twitter was the real-time warning system&#8221; that could tell us which candidates were trending up or down. I wonder if that is reliably true or only true in selective cases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading the Washington Post I was annoyed by a panel at the bottom of my screen with their @MentionMachine tracks the presidential candidates: Who\u2019s up, who\u2019s down on Twitter?. The @MentionMachine tracks Twitter mentions using the Twitter API and also media mentions using Trove. This is real-time social media text analysis. The Washington Post blog &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=4251\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">@MentionMachine: Who\u2019s up, who\u2019s down on Twitter?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,31,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-and-news","category-social-networking","category-text-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4251"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4256,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4251\/revisions\/4256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}