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Social media a news source and tool during Superstorm Sandy | Essentials

Social media a news source and tool during Superstorm Sandy

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The U.S. East Coast was hit hard by Superstorm Sandy -- the Category 1 hurricane was downgraded by landfall Monday evening -- and people all over the world got a sense of events happening in the storm in real time, thanks to social media services like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Instagram. The social analytics firm Topsy reported nearly 3. 5 million tweets with the hashtag #sandy in the last 24 hours. Instagram's chief executive officer Kevin Systrom told the Associated Press that about 10 pictures per second were being uploaded to Instagram with the hashtag #sandy. "Instacane" tells the story of Hurricane Sandy with Instagram pictures Facebook, Twitter abuzz with hurricane chatter Facebook reported that the 10 words and phrases used during the height of the storm were all Sandy related. Topping the list were the words: Sandy, hurricane, Hurricane Sandy, stay safe, be safe and storm.

People:

Superstorm Sandy

Overall Sentiment: 0.373156

Relevance: 0.734602

mayor Micheal Bloomberg

Overall Sentiment: 0.0326641

Relevance: 0.32192

Emily Rahimi

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.281051

SentimentQuote
0"I was just tweeting to people who were not able to get through to 911," Rahimi told ...
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 1
  • Aggregate Sentiment: 0
  • Mean: 0
  • Standard Deviation: 1.4142135623731

Kevin Systrom

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.263249

Jimmy Van Bramer

Overall Sentiment: 0.113441

Relevance: 0.237618

Dan Wootton

Overall Sentiment: 0.0591137

Relevance: 0.230376

Key:

  • Aggregate Sentiment is meant to be an indicator of an individual's overall sentiment.
  • The Mean is meant to be an indicator of an individual's average comment sentiment.
  • The Standard Deviation, when there are enough quotes, will indicate an individual's consistency of sentiment (i.e. a Standard Deviation of 0 would mean they were very consistent in their sentiment and 1 would mean they were very inconsistent).

Note that quote stats are likely to be meaningless beyond the aggregate score due to the tiny sample size. However, they are always provided just in case you find something useful there.

Additional Info:

Region: East coast

Overall Sentiment: -0.0425142

Relevance: 0.555655

City: New York

Overall Sentiment: 0.0169095

Relevance: 0.50283

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Company: Twitter

Overall Sentiment: -0.0446405

Relevance: 0.821867

Disambiguation: Website | VentureFundedCompanyReferences:

Company: Facebook

Overall Sentiment: -0.0487348

Relevance: 0.524694

Company: YouTube

Overall Sentiment: -0.0813793

Relevance: 0.513631

Disambiguation: Website | BroadcastDistributor | FilmDistributor | VentureFundedCompany | AwardWinnerReferences:

Company: Instagram

Overall Sentiment: -0.0345292

Relevance: 0.369765

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