We’ve been tracking various World Cup topics to see if we could uncover how people feel about various teams and events. We wrote about the top 8 teams; when there were four remaining, we wrote about them and even looked at the social media tealeaves in German to see what people were saying about their own team and matches in general.
After an epic match yesterday, Spain beat out Germany (condolences to our German colleagues!) As things reached a fever pitch, the two teams split the crowd in conversation, with Spain at a slight advantage over Germany for the first time during the Champtionship (well, they did win after all!)
How did people feel about the two teams yesterday? Sentiment breakdown shows us that the crowds spoke more positively about the Spanish team. Of the positive sentiment generated by both teams, Spain owned 55% of it, while Germany owned 45% of it. In negatively sentimented chatter, Germany owned 51% of the total, and Spain owned 49% of the total conversation.
Because we track social media in 16 languages, and (did I mention?) half of us are in Germany, I just had to look at some tag clouds. Of course I had to ask a German colleague to translate it for me, but here it goes:
The circled words mean (from top to bottom): “Bitter defeat”, “In the end Spain was better” and “Going forward only with Jogi”. What this last phrase means is that Germans do not blame the coach (Jogi), unlike what happens a lot of times in sports. Rather, the coach has the support of the German citizens, who is going to be an integral part of future matches and championships. Now that the German team is out, who does the German public think will win: Netherlands or Spain? Judging by the tag cloud below, it seems to be Spain (first circle):
What about the English speakers: which of the finalist teams is the most talked about? So far, Spain owns a bit higher share of the conversation, as considered over the course of the past 30 days.
As far as sentiment goes, people love Holland a bit more. The Netherlands garners 53% of the total positive chatter, with 41% of total negative chatter, on a 46% of total conversation. Spain gets 47% of the positive chatter, and 59% of the total negative, on a 54% of the total conversation. Netherlands is definitely the darling of World Cup 2010, but we are not predicting the winner, as I mentioned before — outcome in soccer has nothing to do with social media affinity, but rather skill and experience. Well, maybe a little — strong fandom can certainly boost morale amongst the players, but it’s we are definitely not making predictions based on that. It’s really anyone’s game, and we’ll be sitting back and biting our nails on Sunday!
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| Link | August 13th, 2010 at 7:03 am
themaria wrote,
Ladies and gents, the #worldcup is wrapping up, and we got the social media goods on #ESP & #NED [charts] http://bit.ly/cKUrph #fb
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| Link | July 8th, 2010 at 8:34 pm
Faust28 wrote,
RT @attensity Wrapping Up The World Cup http://bit.ly/cKUrph
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| Link | July 9th, 2010 at 11:52 am
Faust28 wrote,
웹 상의 단어 조합 및 분석을 이런 식으로. Wrapping Up The World Cup http://bit.ly/cKUrph
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| Link | July 9th, 2010 at 11:56 am
hirstys wrote,
http://bit.ly/9ujG0E Twitter and the final? The traffic is Spanish by volume, but it will be Holland if you look at who is most positive.
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| Link | July 9th, 2010 at 2:17 pm
eladm wrote,
#NED taking 53% positive sentiment in the analysis we did with @Attensity360 take a look: http://bit.ly/9ujG0E #worldcup
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| Link | July 9th, 2010 at 4:51 pm
Claudia_Imhoff wrote,
Sentiment analysis by #Attensity says Netherlands is sentimental favorite for #WorldCup http://tinyurl.com/2ecbmal Well, they are mine…
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| Link | July 9th, 2010 at 9:06 pm
hi_noriko wrote,
いよいよ明日の深夜はワールドカップの決勝戦。これはソーシャルメディア上のオランダ＆スペインに関するコメントを分析した記事。 前向きなコメントではスペインの方が多く、後ろ向きなコメントはドイツが若干多い。RT @attensity http://bit.ly/cKUrph
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| Link | July 10th, 2010 at 3:12 am
maurijn_kloek wrote,
RT @Claudia_Imhoff: Sentiment analysis by #Attensity says Netherlands is sentimental favorite for #WorldCup http://tinyurl.com/2ecbmal Well, they are mine…
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| Link | July 10th, 2010 at 6:15 am
TomBooijink wrote,
RT nice! @rlimburg: Sentiment analysis on #socialmedia data. Subject: the #worldcup final. http://bit.ly/9ujG0E
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| Link | July 10th, 2010 at 4:25 pm
LaurelEarhart wrote,
RT @rlimburg: Sentiment analysis on #socialmedia data. Subject: the #worldcup final. http://bit.ly/9ujG0E
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| Link | July 10th, 2010 at 9:09 pm
LaurelEarhart wrote,
RT @Claudia_Imhoff: Sentiment analysis by #Attensity says Netherlands is sentimental favorite for #WorldCup http://tinyurl.com/2ecbmal Well, they are mine…
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| Link | July 10th, 2010 at 9:09 pm
TiborP wrote,
RT @rlimburg: Sentiment analysis on #socialmedia data. Subject: the #worldcup final. http://bit.ly/9ujG0E
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| Link | July 11th, 2010 at 9:08 am
soakdigital wrote,
Attensity have been analyising the World Cup final via Twitter, the results; a moral victory for Holland http://tinyurl.com/2ecbmal
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| Link | July 12th, 2010 at 8:40 am
mrTomSab wrote,
RT @eladm: German social media doesnt blame German coach for the missed #worldcup – according to analysis done by @attensity360 http://bit.ly/9ujG0E
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| Link | July 12th, 2010 at 6:57 pm
themaria wrote,
RT @eladm: German social media doesn’t blame German coach 4 missed #worldcup – via to analysis done by @attensity360 http://bit.ly/9ujG0E
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| Link | July 12th, 2010 at 7:00 pm