{"id":59372,"date":"2014-03-20T15:34:07","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T14:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/?p=59372"},"modified":"2014-03-20T15:34:07","modified_gmt":"2014-03-20T15:34:07","slug":"budget-2014-hit-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/budget-2014-hit-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"#Budget2014: Not such a hit on social media"},"content":{"rendered":"

The UK economy is \u2018recovering faster than expected\u2019 and what better way to spread the cheer than to lower the cost of beer, bingo and air travel!
While Britain\u2019s mainstream media<\/a> has given George Osborne’s 2014 budget the thumbs up with mostly positive coverage, social media has been less compromising, though spot on, in capturing the overall public sentiment relating to the budget.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Using<\/strong>\u00a0Cision Social Media, we found that #Budget2014 was mentioned\u00a0<\/strong>over 204,214 times in 24 hours since the budget was presented. Peak traffic was recorded at noon yesterday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

<\/strong>The conversation topics surrounding #Budget2014 included the following key words:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"budget<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/em>The Conservative Party chairman Grant Schapps stirred things up on Twitter after tweeting an advert highlighting the Chancellor’s decision to cut duty on beer and taxation of bingo. The online advert said the measures were aimed at helping \u00a0“hardworking people do more of the things they enjoy”.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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#budget2014<\/a> cuts bingo & beer tax helping hardworking people do more of the things they enjoy. RT to spread the word pic.twitter.com\/5vbL7RDAg5<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Grant Shapps MP (@grantshapps) March 19, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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