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Love for Sturridge on Twitter

June 17, 2014 — by

Blurrt is collecting the tweets sent during each of the England matches over the World Cup. The window of collection for the first England match against Italy was an hour either side of the match, starting at 22:00 on Saturday 14th June.

The volume of tweets mentioning a range of keywords for this game was in the hundreds of thousands and the wordle tells a story with Daniel Sturridge and Mario Balotelli trending highly on Twitter. ITAvENG love wordle

People expressed their love for Sturridge on Twitter with the volume of tweets shooting up just after his goal at 23:37hrs. Over the next 10 minutes we collected 17.93k tweets mentioning his name in the context of this match, and the sentiment expressed within these tweets was 37% positive, 6% negative and 57% neutral. On a scale of -5 for the most negative to +5 for the most positive – Blurrt revealed that 4.77k tweets had a sentiment score of +5 so over 25% of all people tweeting his name love him as a footballer, and what he achieved last Saturday (the graph below shows volume for tweets from 23:37hrs with a positive score of +5).

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