According to Blurrt, the sentiment expressed by people tweeting about the main parties, in the context of the European Elections, would suggest that it is neck and neck between the Conservatives and Labour.
The *average sentiment of the tweets posted has been analysed over the last 7 days, and is giving us a realtime insight into how the parties may perform on 22nd May 2014.
The average sentiment is higher for Plaid Cymru and the Green Party, but the number of tweets posted mentioning these parties is much lower (150 in the case of Plaid and a slightly higher 685 tweets for the Greens). The *Blurrt Score takes the volume of tweets into account, and interestly, the picture changes as a result.
The bigger picture is that the Conservative Party and the Green Party had a better 7 days.
*Average sentiment is a score with +5 being very positive, 0 being neutral and -5 being very negative.
*The Blurrt Score is a metric on a scale of 1-100 to provide a near real-time measure of sentiment and volume in Twitter.