Social media - Infographics

Social media - Infographics

Social media - Infographics

Social media - Infographics

20 November 2018

MEPs on Twitter #7: EFDD seizes the Brexit debate

By Martina Zaghi

Without any doubt, the EFDD was the most influent EP Group, collecting, on average, 36 reactions for every tweet.

13 November 2018

MEPs on Twitter #6: the “spitzenkandidat” conundrum

By Martina Zaghi

With no surprise, the messages sent by MEPs were mainly focused on the #eppcongress, besides the usual attention given to #brexit.
Citizens focused instead and, once again, on #brexit and #venezuela. Interestingly, people also focused on some issues that involved the Italian deputy Prime Minister, Luigi Di Maio (Five Star Movement).

6 November 2018

MEPs on Twitter #5: are Greens and S&D catching up?

By Martina Zaghi

The Social Democrat MEP, Sergio Gutiérrez Prieto, featured as one of the most active Deputies this week. Prieto mostly tweeted about the Castilla La Mancha issue. Instead the British Deputies, Richard Corbett (S&D Group) and Nigel Farage (EFDD Group), top the rankings of the most retweeted and replied Deputies, respectively.

30 October 2018

MEPs on Twitter #4: the Italian budget row

By Martina Zaghi

The first insight from this week's monitoring is that the absolute number of tweets followed a declining trajectory, following the EP plenary days (22-25th of October). This signals a strong effect of the monthly gathering in Strasbourg on MEPs' Twitter activity.

23 October 2018

MEPs on Twitter #3: EPP takes the lead

By Martina Zaghi

MEPs of the EPP group tweeted more than all other parties and increased their amount of online conversations week after week. Also looking at the tweets-to-MEPs ratio, EPP deputies proved to be more active than previous weeks. They ranked third, behind the EFDD and the Greens/EFA.

16 October 2018

MEPs on Twitter #2: MEPs’ and citizens’ diverging priorities

By Martina Zaghi

This week MEPs mainly dealt with the Brexit negotiations (#brexit, #peoplesvote) and the local elections in Warsaw that took place on October 21 (#trzaskowski2018, #debatawarszawska). Instead, citizens mostly focused on Brexit and other UK issues (#brexit, #scrapthelicencefee).

9 October 2018

MEPs on Twitter #1 : Brexit under the spotlight

By Martina Zaghi

In the run-up to the 2019 European elections, EuVisions kicked off a special project centred around the current members of the EU Parliament. Out of a total number of 750 MEPs, we are tracking the online activity of 666 deputies on Twitter, through their profiles. Currently, we are collecting all the tweets sent by MEPs, as well as, the reactions to the former, in terms of retweets and replies.

14 June 2018

The Yo!Fest2018 on Twitter

By Martina Zaghi

The 10th edition of the YoFest has taken place on June 1-2 in Strasbourg, together with the 3rd edition of the European Youth Event.

During the two days of debates, live music and many other activities, EuVisions monitored online conversations about the YoFest.

16 May 2018

The State of the Union 2018 discussion online

By Francesca Arcostanzo

The 2018 State of the Union conference organised by the European University Institute (EUI) that took place in Fiesole and Florence on May 10 and 11 triggered a strong online debate among participants, stakeholders and the general public.
During the two days, the EuVisions observatory monitored discussions related to the main event-hashtag #SoU2018.

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