Twitter statistics for today’s public hearing on the proposed arena deal

I think it’s fair to say that the public hearing on the proposed arena deal was the talk of Twitter in Edmonton today. Here’s my quick analysis of all arena-related tweets posted by Edmonton users today between 9:30am and 9:30pm.

A word cloud of the 4500+ tweets:

Here’s a breakdown of tweets per minute (you can clearly see the lunch and dinner breaks):

Other stats:

• Thanks largely to the arena-related tweets, more than 44,000 tweets were posted by Edmontonians today. That works out to an average of about 31 tweets per minute.
• More than 800 different users posted at least one arena-related tweet.
• On average, 6.3 arena-related tweets were posted per minute between 9:30am and 9:30pm. The peak was 24.
• Roughly 17% of the tweets were replies to other users.
• Roughly 25% of the tweets were retweets.

Here are the top 20 most active local users (most tweets to least):

1. Paulatics
2. iNews880
3. scott_lilwall
4. KikkiPlanet
5. ctvedmonton
6. rjmackinnon
7. Sirthinks
8. jfranceska
9. SunMichelleT
10. JennaBCityTV
11. canadianglen
12. dstaples
13. edmontoncritic
14. Edmontonsun
15. Darren_Krause
16. journalistjeff
17. SeanCollins11
18. DennisMichael_1
19. smoonie
20. ScottFralick

Here are the top 20 most retweeted local users (by other local users, most retweeted to least):

1. Paulatics
2. ctvedmonton
3. KikkiPlanet
4. rjmackinnon
5. iNews880
6. sunterryjones
7. scott_lilwall
8. SunMichelleT
9. mastermaq
10. dstaples
11. davecournoyer
12. el_cormier
13. yegmotto
14. smah1
15. frostiblack
16. dantencer
17. Edmontonsun
18. dirklancer
19. journalistjeff
20. tedgbauer & alexabboud

Council voted to deal with the issue at 9:30am tomorrow (Wednesday). You can watch or listen live here.