Georgia ranked third among racist post-election tweets, study says

See the article for info on other states.

http://clatl.com/freshloaf/archives/2012/11/09/georgia-ranked-third-among-racist-post-election-tweets-study-says

Posted by Max Blau @maxblau on Fri, Nov 9, 2012

Throughout the 2012 election season, social media has helped people to engage in the political discourse surrounding election races more than ever before.

But there's also a downside to discussing politics through social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. As a recent Jezebel post documented, an abundance of hate messages followed the re-election of President Barack Obama.

Floatingsheep, which analyzes user-generated geocoded data, yesterday took a hard look at racist election tweets. After aggregating tweets surrounding the presidential race, the site's authors examined the data on a state-by-state basis, seeing how the racist posts compared to the overall number of messages during that same period.

What did they find? They saw that Southern states had a high amount of racist tweeters.

That includes Georgia, which ranked third just behind Alabama and Mississppi.

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http://www.floatingsheep.org/2012/11/mapping-racist-tweets-in-response-to.html

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Keep in mind we are measuring tweets rather than users and so one individual could be responsible for many tweets and in some cases (most notably in North Dakota, Utah and Minnesota) the number of hate tweets is small and the high LQ is driven by the relatively low number of overall tweets.

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