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Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize: 69% of Twitter Users Don’t Get It

Source: Mashable!

Oct 09, 2009

Summary

Barack Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize has taken many people by surprise, including the President himself, who held a brief press conference this morning to discuss the award.

There are already hundreds if not thousands of political commentaries about it, but we wanted to know what Twitter users collectively thought. So, we asked Crimson Hexagon, who analyzes online sentiment, to compile data on the conversation thus far.

The results: while 31% of tweets can be summarized as congratulatory, the other 69% have negative opinions varying from “he hasn’t done anything yet” to “makes the prize itself a joke.”

Here’s the breakdown:

We’ll leave the politics for others to chew on, but the story has clearly created quite a buzz on Twitter and is dominating conversation many hours after the fact. In any event, it certainly seems like last week’s chatter over Obama’s native Chicago not getting the 2016 Olympics is now a distant memory in light of the Nobel announcement.

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Tags: nobel peace prize, obama, politics