Tweets Analysis - Keyword: @BBCMarkSimpson
Overview
Total number of tweets analysed
509
Earliest tweet was on
2023-03-22
Latest tweet was on
2023-03-31
Tweets covering
8 days
Average age of authors' accounts
8 years
Types of Tweets
Number of Retweets
76
Percentage of total tweets
14%
Number of Original tweets
32
Percentage of total tweets
6%
Number of tweets that contain Mentions
509
Percentage of total tweets
100%
Number of tweets that were Replies
383
Percentage of total tweets
75%
Number of tweets that were Quotes
35
Percentage of total tweets
6%
Number of tweets that contain Hashtags
41
Percentage of total tweets
8%
Top 5 devices used to tweet
| Source | Count |
|---|---|
| Twitter for Android | 226 |
| Twitter for iPhone | 185 |
| Twitter Web App | 74 |
| Twitter for iPad | 20 |
| SocialFlow | 3 |
What devices were used to tweet
Top 10 accounts with highest followers count
| Username | Name | Bio | Followers count |
|---|---|---|---|
| bbcnewsline | BBC Newsline | The official twitter account for BBC Newsline, BBC Northern Ireland's TV news programme. For complaints: https://t.co/ARRj1BKqEZ | 200,899 |
| utv | UTV | The latest Northern Irish News (@UTVNews), Sport (@UTVSport) and Entertainment. *RTs are not endorsements* | 191,509 |
| BBCMarkSimpson | Mark Simpson | BBC NEWS Correspondent. Founder of #DigitalSiesta Trust me, I'm a journalist … | 58,143 |
| EamonnMallie | Eamonn Mallie | Author, Broadcaster, Journalist, Filmmaker, Editor https://t.co/eYnFB2pnp6, Presenter of 'Eamonn Mallie: Face to Face with...' on UTV. | 55,499 |
| MarkCarruthers7 | Mark Carruthers | 📺 Presenter of The View, Sunday Politics & the Red Lines podcast for @BBCNewsNI | 📖 Author of 'Stepping Stones' & 'Alternative Ulsters'. RTs ≠ endorsement… | 46,790 |
| bbctheview | bbctheview | BBC NI's flagship politics programme. Presented by @MarkCarruthers7, Thursdays @ 10.35 on BBC One NI. Also tweets on #SundayPolitics & #BBCRedLines | 31,389 |
| ConorBurnsUK | Conor Burns | Member of Parliament for Bournemouth West. (Constituency and policy matters by email) | 27,797 |
| UnsungheroMark | MARK HUGHES STANDING UP FOR THE TERMINALLY ILL | I have terminal bone cancer sir Ranulph Fiennes climbed a mountain in my honour for my charity work with Marie Curie. Trying to do my bit to help the terminal💙 | 25,155 |
| sharon_scoop | Sharon O'Neill | Journalist/News Editor Sunday Life | 24,355 |
| taramillstv | Tara Mills | I’m the Presenter of @bbcnewsline 📺 and @BBCevex 📻 l Year ‘21 Podcast #NI100 l Mental Health & Learning Disability. | 22,475 |
Top 10 accounts with highest friends count
| Username | Name | Bio | Followers count |
|---|---|---|---|
| EamonnMallie | Eamonn Mallie | Author, Broadcaster, Journalist, Filmmaker, Editor https://t.co/eYnFB2pnp6, Presenter of 'Eamonn Mallie: Face to Face with...' on UTV. | 15,773 |
| rjpark | Robert Park 🌸🗽🏗️ | Cill Uachtair, Aontroim, An Ríocht Aontaithe. I do carbon inventory/reduction/sustainability, #gym and #YIMBY. #techforgood | 11,939 |
| Duffygary | Gary Duffy | Passions include Brazil, Ireland, France, UK. Views mine. Tweets in English, Portuguese. Former BBC journalist, Save the Children media. Cancer survivor. 🏳️🌈 | 7,904 |
| RuthRobinsonLon | Ruth Robinson | I cannot support my local football club because of things that happened locally back there where I used to be a local ☘️ in a country that is no longer nice | 7,709 |
| thealso | Jim Magill | Automotive Anti Hero, Ex Alcohol Advocate, Travel Incompetent & Fiat Specialist Whittler and co founder of @AlsoDriven | 7,071 |
| prodlegacy | forgotten ppl | I vow to thee, my country | 6,971 |
| robbiekane74 | Robbie Kane | Roving Reporter @DublinLive! Freelance Broadcaster on @Radionova100 @ClassicHitsRdio @Nearfm Actor: Agent @MVWTalentAgency All Tweets are entirely my own! | 6,052 |
| UnsungheroMark | MARK HUGHES STANDING UP FOR THE TERMINALLY ILL | I have terminal bone cancer sir Ranulph Fiennes climbed a mountain in my honour for my charity work with Marie Curie. Trying to do my bit to help the terminal💙 | 5,754 |
| Conor_Devine | CD 🌱 | Tweets☆Business, Politics, Financial literacy, football & my pasison Health & Wellbeing 🧠 8 x Ironman 🇮🇪 Pod: Money & Plants 💰🌱 ➡️ own https://t.co/AycJIdIWA8 🌎 | 5,431 |
| SaraONeillArt | Sara O'Neill Artist 🐚 | Éadach Designer & Scribbler. Storytelling in pencil & silk, inspired by Irish mythology, folklore, women, the land & history. Sea Spammer. | 5,403 |
Most active users
| Username | Bio | Number of tweets |
|---|---|---|
| EamonnMallie | Author, Broadcaster, Journalist, Filmmaker, Editor https://t.co/eYnFB2pnp6, Presenter of 'Eamonn Mallie: Face to Face with...' on UTV. | 10 |
| SeanSaid_ | This is my Mummy | 8 |
| ANNAOHara05 | 💜 | 8 |
| Freya_Soda_Farl | #REMEMBERMYNOAH #Crimestoppers 0800 555 111 100% anonymous. Always Rid your communities of thugs & bullies. SHE/MOTHER/GRANDMOTHER | 6 |
| TirChonaillAbu | Science, technology, knowledge, language, art, heritage, culture, history, humanity, the future. Petrolhead, audiophile, grianghrafadóir. Mac bródúil Uladh. | 6 |
| GarethBurns18 | I want to live in a Society with mutual respect and hope where there is no need for barriers between neighbourhoods or aspirations. What we share we love. | 6 |
| CiaranNB | - | 5 |
| B25dave | Birmingham City From The Cradle to the Grave English 🏴 not British (Views are my own and NOT representative of my employer) up the fucking Blues | 5 |
| mgtruth | Allum (nee Colville) I'm a 65yr old wife to Paul, and mother of 2 adult children. I play golf. Poorly, but sure, it gets me out of the house. Love walking. | 5 |
| Warren1Point | Pro EU anti Brexit. In favour of a new & #UnitedIreland for all our people, envisioning a country of equals 🇮🇪 🏳️🌈 | 4 |
Tweets per day
Top 10 tweets with highest Retweet count
| ID | Text | Retweet count |
|---|---|---|
| 1641037441501986827 | Listening Reg Empey on #bbctalkback with @BBCMarkSimpson is very telling. He says you cannot bolt two pieces of land together & call it a nation. But we are here today because the British invaded their neighbouring island & said we own you now. Nothing is ever learned | 20 |
| 1641117840760504320 | 🚨 New podcast episode 🚨 GFA#3 The Dealmakers @MarkCarruthers7 is joined by the former Directors of Communications for the @uuponline & @SDLPlive @davidwkerr & @ConallMcD Former Chief of staff for the Women's Coalition Kate Fearon & @BBCMarkSimpson https://t.co/8uuS2jsWsL | 11 |
| 1640690423357161473 | BBC presenter @hugoduncan and the Good Friday Agreement are the same age…They both went public in 1998. Unlike the MLAs Hugo has turned up for work everyday! @BBCMarkSimpson @SuzyJourno @AllisonMorris1 @skydavidblevins @EamonnHolmes https://t.co/v7rJzDpuGt | 11 |
| 1641159397563936768 | Of the parties gathered around the negotiating table in 1998, it was perhaps the Ulster Unionists who had the biggest decision to make. They said 'yes' to the Good Friday Agreement but it split the party. @BBCMarkSimpson's been speaking to Lord Empey, one of the main negotiators. https://t.co/dPMjEnbNgV | 11 |
| 1641120298215915544 | 🚨The latest #BBCRedLines - discussing the #GFA’s dealmakers. Straight talking from @davidwkerr @ConallMcD, Kate Fearon & @BBCMarkSimpson. An important & insightful conversation from people who were inside the room… @bbcnewsni @bbctheview https://t.co/IZU9tuV0wy | 10 |
| 1641396760621850626 | 12,500 in “loyalist terrorist groups” Why did you omit the word “loyalist”? @BBCMarkSimpson https://t.co/SNBIE4pDwU | 8 |
| 1640796685491109888 | Gerry Adams, the former Sinn Fein President, has been remembering how the republican movement changed from the start of the peace process to taking their seats in Stormont after the Good Friday Agreement. He sat down with @BBCMarkSimpson. https://t.co/xSHeOPaQqh | 8 |
| 1641167675459076098 | #UlsterUnionist made the right decision then, and continues to do so. Country first, long before any credo of party or self. It’s a lesson many (on all sides) could learn to this day. @bbcnewsline @BBCMarkSimpson https://t.co/fHXnponpIx | 8 |
| 1639683865210941440 | https://t.co/5v4kQxvkgE @_ClaireRichards @larrylamb47 @BeingBoycie @jogideon @AnnekaRice @missjanetellis @Vanessa_Kisuule @alexandamusic @GabyRoslin @BBCMarkSimpson @janehorrocks_ my name is Mark & i have 85% bone cancer,i campaigned alongside Marie Curie on the #scrap6months 👇 https://t.co/gYdUff7jpT https://t.co/NCZi5ZSZA0 | 7 |
| 1641822056533688320 | We need a government…. Job losses , interventions for young people and a programme approved fit for purpose by universities & 656 young people! ALL CUT TODAY SHOW YOUR SUPPORT @TommyBowe @PaulMaskeyMP @duponline @KateNicholl @BelfastLive @BBCMarkSimpson @BBCNewsNI https://t.co/SIP22lTe5R | 6 |
Top 10 tweets with highest Like count
| ID | Text | Like count |
|---|---|---|
| 1641037441501986827 | Listening Reg Empey on #bbctalkback with @BBCMarkSimpson is very telling. He says you cannot bolt two pieces of land together & call it a nation. But we are here today because the British invaded their neighbouring island & said we own you now. Nothing is ever learned | 102 |
| 1640690423357161473 | BBC presenter @hugoduncan and the Good Friday Agreement are the same age…They both went public in 1998. Unlike the MLAs Hugo has turned up for work everyday! @BBCMarkSimpson @SuzyJourno @AllisonMorris1 @skydavidblevins @EamonnHolmes https://t.co/v7rJzDpuGt | 65 |
| 1641396760621850626 | 12,500 in “loyalist terrorist groups” Why did you omit the word “loyalist”? @BBCMarkSimpson https://t.co/SNBIE4pDwU | 44 |
| 1640796685491109888 | Gerry Adams, the former Sinn Fein President, has been remembering how the republican movement changed from the start of the peace process to taking their seats in Stormont after the Good Friday Agreement. He sat down with @BBCMarkSimpson. https://t.co/xSHeOPaQqh | 44 |
| 1641197062464360448 | @Kscott_94 @BelTel Why are the local journals AWOL, leaving the story to an intrepid snapper? @BBCMarkSimpson spends a week in the Holylands every year demonising boozy students but a Loyalist terrorist feud is clearly not worthy of his time. | 39 |
| 1641167675459076098 | #UlsterUnionist made the right decision then, and continues to do so. Country first, long before any credo of party or self. It’s a lesson many (on all sides) could learn to this day. @bbcnewsline @BBCMarkSimpson https://t.co/fHXnponpIx | 35 |
| 1641159397563936768 | Of the parties gathered around the negotiating table in 1998, it was perhaps the Ulster Unionists who had the biggest decision to make. They said 'yes' to the Good Friday Agreement but it split the party. @BBCMarkSimpson's been speaking to Lord Empey, one of the main negotiators. https://t.co/dPMjEnbNgV | 31 |
| 1641117840760504320 | 🚨 New podcast episode 🚨 GFA#3 The Dealmakers @MarkCarruthers7 is joined by the former Directors of Communications for the @uuponline & @SDLPlive @davidwkerr & @ConallMcD Former Chief of staff for the Women's Coalition Kate Fearon & @BBCMarkSimpson https://t.co/8uuS2jsWsL | 25 |
| 1639001596217667585 | As the DUP continues to push for changes to the post-Brexit trading arrangements, known as the Windsor Framework - the party was told today that's not going to happen. Bluntly put, 'negotiations are over', said the Secretary of State. @BBCMarkSimpson has the latest: https://t.co/bwyELh3z2u | 20 |
| 1638943570966069248 | @BBCMarkSimpson @BBCJayneMcC @chhcalling Then that’s a slap in the bake for power sharing! | 18 |
Top 3 Languages Used In Tweets
Top 10 Hashtags used
| Hashtag | Count |
|---|---|
| #bbctalkback | 10 |
| #bbcredlines | 3 |
| #gfa | 3 |
| #northernireland | 3 |
| #talkback | 2 |
| #topjournos | 2 |
| #ulsterunionist | 2 |
| #innovation | 2 |
| #scrap6months | 2 |
| #paisley | 2 |
Top 10 Hashtags Used In Tweets
Top 10 mentions
| Mention | Count |
|---|---|
| @bbcmarksimpson | 509 |
| @gerryadamssf | 62 |
| @chhcalling | 53 |
| @bbcnewsline | 34 |
| @tvconormac | 31 |
| @bbcradioulster | 27 |
| @markcarruthers7 | 25 |
| @suzyjourno | 25 |
| @warren1point | 23 |
| @eamonnmallie | 22 |
Top 10 mentions
Wordcloud of Tweets
Emojis
Average number of emojis used per tweet
23
Emojis used in tweets
| Emoji | Count | Emoji Text |
|---|---|---|
| 👍 | 10 | thumbs_up |
| 🚨 | 9 | police_car_light |
| 🤔 | 7 | thinking_face |
| 🙏 | 6 | folded_hands |
| 👏 | 6 | clapping_hands |
| 😀 | 5 | grinning_face |
| 😉 | 5 | winking_face |
| 😊 | 5 | smiling_face_with_smiling_eyes |
| 🤣 | 4 | rolling_on_the_floor_laughing |
| 🇮🇪 | 3 | Ireland |
Emojis groups
| Emoji Group | Count |
|---|---|
| Smileys & Emotion | 49 |
| People & Body | 37 |
| Travel & Places | 14 |
| Symbols | 6 |
| Flags | 5 |
| Objects | 5 |
| Animals & Nature | 2 |
| Activities | 2 |
| Food & Drink | 1 |