Sorin Adam Matei
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The relative popularity of the contenders in the 2012 US Presidential campaign can be measured not only by traditional polling methods, but also by the buzz the contestants create online and in social media. One efficient tool is Google Trends, which indicates…
Note: This post and the charts will be updated throughout the evening. Come back often for more recent details. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney were relatively close in number of Google News searches, which is an indicator of social reach on online…
“No, you can’t!” A semi-funny non-verbal communication situation that might or might not convey the meaning of the situation. At the Pittsburgh Summit, 2009 President Obama introduces his wife to Dominique Strauss Kahn (DSK), who at the time was still the director…
After a great start, with great positive reactions on Twitter, President Obama’s Middle East speech has become only a few days later a more controversial proposition, both for social media audiences and for newsmakers. According to Social Mention, a social media monitoring…
NEW: Read latest update on social mention sentiment analysis of President Obama’s Middle East speech Textual analysis of the rhetoric and of the social media buzz created by President Obama’s speech on the future of the Middle East (see transcript of Middle…
CBS interviewed President Obama as early as Wednesday, May 4 on how the mission to catch and kill Osama Bin Laden emerged and was completed: On Wednesday, May 4, 2011 – three days after he announced that American troops had killed Osama…
A sudden White House announcement Sunday night that President Obama will give an important address kept the nation in suspense for about an hour and a half until the president announced officially at 11:34 PM EST that Osama Bin Laden is dead.…
Image via Wikipedia The total amount raised by Barack Obama online represents a majority of his 2008 electoral funds. Time to take stock of this reality and think about it for the next electoral cycle. Barack Obama raised half a billion dollars…