The Queen, Canadians and Social Media

As the Queen paid a visit to Canada at the end of last month, we wanted to take a look at what Canadians felt about the Royal Visit. Some countries in the Commonwealth are having that ongoing debate; should the Queen be the head of State or not. Then there’s the Royalists vs. the Republics split. We’re not getting into politics, just a snap look at overall sentiment.

So we set loose our software to look at the sentiment around the Queens visit and here’s the stats on what we found for sentiment;

Methodology: We sampled commentary across Canada’s major news papers online where comments were enabled. In addition we mined semantics from Twitter, Plurk and Identi.ca (primary microblogs) and Facebook fan and group pages. Representative sample size was 21,500 Canadians.