{"id":89755,"date":"2016-06-27T09:54:15","date_gmt":"2016-06-27T09:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/?p=89755"},"modified":"2016-06-27T09:54:15","modified_gmt":"2016-06-27T09:54:15","slug":"social-media-answers-key-questions-on-the-eu-referendum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/social-media-answers-key-questions-on-the-eu-referendum\/","title":{"rendered":"Social media answers key questions on the EU referendum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The referendum campaign has had a big impact on social media, with mediums such as Facebook and Twitter seeming to take center place as sources of information and debate. We look at how social media has reacted to key issues, which campaigner has been most talked about and how the discussion has changed over time.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. Who\u2019s been most talked about?<\/p>\n<p>Looking at mentions of the four leading campaigners, David Cameron has heavily dominated the conversation on Twitter, followed by Nigel Farage, Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn. As Prime Minister, David Cameron\u2019s prominence in the debate is to be expected, however Vote Leave may be disappointed that Nigel Farage has more mentions than Boris Johnson, who is part of the official campaign group.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Campaigner-Twitter-mentions1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-89772 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Campaigner-Twitter-mentions1.png\" alt=\"Campaigner Twitter mentions\" width=\"602\" height=\"353\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>2. Which campaign has been most talked about?<\/p>\n<p>Looking at mentions of twitter handles associated with both campaigns (bearing in mind that a mention doesn\u2019t equate with support) the Leave campaign has heavily dominated conversation on Twitter. Whether this is because there is more controversy around the leave campaign or its supporters are simply more vocal, there\u2019s a clear dominance on social media.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Leave-Remain-Twitter-mentions.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-89767 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Leave-Remain-Twitter-mentions.png\" alt=\"Leave Remain Twitter mentions\" width=\"600\" height=\"340\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>3. Which issues have been most talked about?<br \/>\nThe economy has driven conversation on Twitter, followed by foreign relations, immigration and security. Given the primacy of immigration in the debate over the EU its position in third place may come as a surprise, although immigration\u2019s position at the top of the list is to be expected.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Issues-Twitter-mentions.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-89768 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Issues-Twitter-mentions.png\" alt=\"Issues Twitter mentions\" width=\"621\" height=\"352\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Download the full Vuelio stakeholder response and media analysis summary <a href=\"http:\/\/email.vuelio.com\/eu-referendum-media-analysis-and-stakeholder-reaction\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The referendum campaign has had a big impact on social media, with mediums such as Facebook and Twitter seeming to take center place as sources of information and debate. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":423,"featured_media":89869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3729,3734],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89755"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/423"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}