Tweets Analysis - Keyword: @HS2ltd
Overview
Total number of tweets analysed
920
Earliest tweet was on
2023-03-21
Latest tweet was on
2023-03-30
Tweets covering
9 days
Average age of authors' accounts
8 years
Summarization
HS2's tunnel boring machine 'Dorothy' has completed the first HS2 tunnel while protecting ancient woodland, the design of Euston station has been deemed unaffordable and a report urges the government to put the project on a more realistic footing. Lawyers argue CAF should be excluded from the tender procedure due to involvement in Israeli war crimes. Independent experts reveal HS2 phase 1 is only 18% complete and the cost of scrapping it could be £10bn. The NAO reports on the DfT and HS2's attempt to reset the programme since 2020, which has failed. The overall effect of HS2 on the environment is still huge emissions increase and ecology loss.
Topic Modeling
- HS2 Tunnel Completion and Protection of Woodland
- Design and Cost Concerns with HS2 Euston Station
- Comparisons and Competitions with Other Transportation Options
- Updates on HS2 Construction Progress and Legal Issues
- Calls for Canceling or Continuing HS2 Project
- Environmental Impact and Compensation for Losses
Emotional Analysis
The tweets express a range of emotions towards the HS2 project, which is a UK high-speed railway. Some tweets celebrate the completion of tunnels and viaducts, praising the project's achievement in protecting ancient woodlands and improving transportation. Others criticize the project's costs, design, and impact on the environment. Some tweets express frustration with delays and failures in implementation, while others urge the government to cancel the project. Overall, the emotions expressed in the tweets are mixed and reflect the controversy surrounding the HS2 project.
Trend Analysis
- HS2 tunnel breakthrough and progress updates
- Criticism and calls for re-evaluation of HS2 project design and cost sustainability
- Comparisons and challenges between HS2 and other transportation options
- Legal and ethical concerns related to HS2 project and companies involved
- Environmental impact and sustainability issues surrounding HS2 construction and land use
Types of Tweets
Number of Retweets
180
Percentage of total tweets
19%
Number of Original tweets
109
Percentage of total tweets
11%
Number of tweets that contain Mentions
920
Percentage of total tweets
100%
Number of tweets that were Replies
620
Percentage of total tweets
67%
Number of tweets that were Quotes
41
Percentage of total tweets
4%
Number of tweets that contain Hashtags
262
Percentage of total tweets
28%
Top 5 devices used to tweet
| Source | Count |
|---|---|
| Twitter Web App | 338 |
| Twitter for Android | 249 |
| Twitter for iPhone | 223 |
| Twitter for iPad | 58 |
| Buffer | 17 |
What devices were used to tweet
Top 10 accounts with highest followers count
| Username | Name | Bio | Followers count |
|---|---|---|---|
| BDSmovement | BDS movement | Official account of the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC). We're the Palestinian leadership of the global Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions (BDS) movement. | 239,647 |
| NAOorguk | National Audit Office | The UK’s independent public spending watchdog. | 131,576 |
| BDonline | Building Design | Stay in touch with Building Design on Twitter for the latest #architecture news and comments from the architects' favourite. | 121,785 |
| BuildingNews | Building News | Follow for construction news, features, events and industry insight from the Building team. See @Building4jobs for career opportunities | 98,295 |
| CityAM | City A.M. | London's business newspaper - News, Opinion, Analysis and Sports, 24/7 via https://t.co/uawxH6L1lo. Sign up for our free 3x daily news alerts via https://t.co/mgignptfoL | 77,550 |
| ncedigital | New Civil Engineer | Delivering breaking #civilengineering news, analysis, opinion and jobs. New #Podcast out now: https://t.co/jUOGqFrVhg | 53,733 |
| SlowWaysUK | Slow Ways | We're creating a network of 8,000+ #SlowWays walking routes that connect all of the UK's towns and cities, starting with GB. Up for helping us? | 32,570 |
| BCTGB | Border Collie Trust | Rescuing & rehoming Border Collies throughout the UK. Gold Peoples Choice Award 2022 and Silver Peoples Choice Award 2020 - The Charity Film Awards | 25,102 |
| HuwMerriman | Huw Merriman MP | MP for the Bexhill and Battle constituency. Minister of State for Rail and HS2. For replies, please email: huw.merriman.mp@parliament.uk | 22,463 |
| Flight_Refunds | FlightRefunds | Flight disruption, delay or cancellation in last 6 yrs? Get upto £540 compensation per person. Check your flight at https://t.co/yw8MqfIZr0 and find out in seconds | 19,536 |
Top 10 accounts with highest friends count
| Username | Name | Bio | Followers count |
|---|---|---|---|
| SlowWaysUK | Slow Ways | We're creating a network of 8,000+ #SlowWays walking routes that connect all of the UK's towns and cities, starting with GB. Up for helping us? | 23,428 |
| BCTGB | Border Collie Trust | Rescuing & rehoming Border Collies throughout the UK. Gold Peoples Choice Award 2022 and Silver Peoples Choice Award 2020 - The Charity Film Awards | 20,350 |
| BDonline | Building Design | Stay in touch with Building Design on Twitter for the latest #architecture news and comments from the architects' favourite. | 16,810 |
| rjpark | Robert Park 🌸🗽🏗️ | Cill Uachtair, Aontroim, An Ríocht Aontaithe. I do carbon inventory/reduction/sustainability, #gym and #YIMBY. #techforgood | 11,938 |
| AntacsB | Anton 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 | | British-Carribbean | Politics | Sci-Fi | Tech | | 10,054 |
| Hs2Rebellion | HS2 Rebellion | Supporting eco-activists & protectors of wildlife, woodlands & water from #HS2 destruction & #Ecocide. #StopHS2 #HS2Resistance . Info: https://t.co/pZqCO4GN37 | 9,458 |
| sarahisitme | Sarah #BringBackBoris #neverRishiSunak 🦘🦘🦘 | True Blue Conservative not a member as they left me #Tino Party .Royalist. very happily married . Does not respond to DMs. Dms on follow instantly blocked! | 6,558 |
| KenJMunn | Ken Munn | #FBPE, #GTTO, #Rwanda notinmyname. European, British, English, Londoner in that order. Urban cyclist for 40 years. | 6,106 |
| Feltip1982 | Simon Paul Felton | Brummiephile,photographer (feltonography@instagram),urban design student & lapsed campanologist & blogger among other eclectic interests. Personal account. | 5,016 |
| scorpiotiger77 | Scorpiotiger77 🃏🇬🇧 #Restorethesnyderverse | Economist, political junkie, traveller, and zen master, intense scorpionic enigma, lover of life and Associate Producer for #ZackSnydersJusticeLeague | 5,006 |
Most active users
| Username | Bio | Number of tweets |
|---|---|---|
| WilliamBarter1 | Independent rail planning consultant | 57 |
| stellastafford | Author of the Little Wychwell Mysteries, available in paperback and on Kindle and various other books, see also http://t.co/JLk9qpvy | 43 |
| TimChantler | Stop HS2. Proud CWU member | 35 |
| frances_cutler | - | 29 |
| PaulMBigland | Freelance photographer, Journalist, Blogger, Traveller, NUJ member. | 25 |
| BRCWCo | The official twitter account for the Birmingham Railway Carriage & Wagon Company Ltd | 20 |
| Penmcgregor | Farming, forests & saving Earth #regenerativeagriculture #agroecology #agroforestry #SustainableForestry | 17 |
| HS2theTruth | Exposing the lies & bullshit dispensed by HS2 & its choo choo fan club. Retired Chartered Civil Engineer. Transport Planner. #BlockedbyAdonis. Likes rail | 12 |
| cynicalkind | Apolitical, like curate's eggs, travel, and beetroot.(can't sing) | 12 |
| LuciferSide | laughing at idiots since 1066 | 12 |
Tweets per day
Top 10 tweets with highest Retweet count
| ID | Text | Retweet count |
|---|---|---|
| 1640232315103133696 | The #HS2 Euston station is unaffordable, and @HS2ltd and @transportgovuk need to look again at the design. Our report urges the Government to put the project on a more realistic and stable footing. Read our report 🚆 https://t.co/JLO1v5ZqRn https://t.co/FqBlA8yUEF | 57 |
| 1639907038925930497 | Lawyers from @elsclegal say “@HS2Ltd has the legal right and a moral obligation to exclude CAF from the tender procedure” for the new UK high speed rail due to CAF’s involvement in Israeli war crimes through construction of Israel’s Jerusalem Light Rail ➡️ https://t.co/XU3acwbew2 https://t.co/j3H7feFbIZ | 27 |
| 1638182237001621511 | Independent experts say #HS2 phase1 is only 18% complete (as opposed to the 40% advertised by Mark Thurston of @hs2ltd). These same experts revealed the completion date was going to be 2041 for this section months before this was admitted. They also say cost of scrapping £10bn | 19 |
| 1640337801555181569 | #HS2 Euston - @NAOorguk report. “DfT’s & @HS2ltd attempt to reset the programme since 2020 has not succeeded...” Damning report after report. Time to cancel & #StopHS2 #Ecocide https://t.co/ubHKjnwo05 | 17 |
| 1638169694304874496 | This was back in 2015 when #HS2 Ltd got things so badly wrong in parliament about the depth of the tunnel which is currently farting out into Ruislip Rugby Club, that they actually made local MP @BorisJohnson seem competent. That's how bad @HS2ltd are! https://t.co/8vYxywzkWL | 14 |
| 1638520903226073098 | When an engineering magazine produces polls like this, time must surely be up for @HS2ltd @TheGreenParty @BrightGrn @stophs2 @GreenAgainstHS2 @GreenJennyJones https://t.co/peoXYvuFdK | 13 |
| 1638631953933955072 | Why is ecological damage going ahead on Phase 2 @HS2ltd @GreenJennyJones @tonyberkeley1 @Mark_J_Harper https://t.co/76StdgTHhZ | 11 |
| 1641438211657576448 | Another ground-breaking moment for @HS2ltd. Our boring machine ‘Dorothy’ has broken through the final section under #LongItchingtonWood, marking the completion of the first HS2 tunnel. This paves the way for HS2 trains while protecting the ancient woodland on the land above. https://t.co/KDUeuVyE1y | 11 |
| 1639924245152112641 | #HS2 vs #SW2 Reckon we're going to beat you to it @HS2ltd 😉 https://t.co/n5fsQTeObc 👀 #SlowWays #SlowWaysIdeas @Jesse_Norman @LouHaigh 🐌 https://t.co/RVvFKdkIcI | 10 |
| 1640513818647310342 | In today's @CityAM. North and South agree: we have to build HS2 all the way from Euston to Manchester, by John Dickie, chief executive, @_BusinessLDN and @henrimurison, chief executive, @NP_Partnership #Euston #HS2 @HS2ltd #CityAM https://t.co/LHjKywoPgh | 10 |
Top 10 tweets with highest Like count
| ID | Text | Like count |
|---|---|---|
| 1641438211657576448 | Another ground-breaking moment for @HS2ltd. Our boring machine ‘Dorothy’ has broken through the final section under #LongItchingtonWood, marking the completion of the first HS2 tunnel. This paves the way for HS2 trains while protecting the ancient woodland on the land above. https://t.co/KDUeuVyE1y | 85 |
| 1640232315103133696 | The #HS2 Euston station is unaffordable, and @HS2ltd and @transportgovuk need to look again at the design. Our report urges the Government to put the project on a more realistic and stable footing. Read our report 🚆 https://t.co/JLO1v5ZqRn https://t.co/FqBlA8yUEF | 68 |
| 1639924245152112641 | #HS2 vs #SW2 Reckon we're going to beat you to it @HS2ltd 😉 https://t.co/n5fsQTeObc 👀 #SlowWays #SlowWaysIdeas @Jesse_Norman @LouHaigh 🐌 https://t.co/RVvFKdkIcI | 48 |
| 1641184436661125120 | Viaduct progress for @HS2ltd Curzon Street Birmingham #hs2 #birmingham https://t.co/qXyWWN5wiK | 44 |
| 1639907038925930497 | Lawyers from @elsclegal say “@HS2Ltd has the legal right and a moral obligation to exclude CAF from the tender procedure” for the new UK high speed rail due to CAF’s involvement in Israeli war crimes through construction of Israel’s Jerusalem Light Rail ➡️ https://t.co/XU3acwbew2 https://t.co/j3H7feFbIZ | 39 |
| 1638182237001621511 | Independent experts say #HS2 phase1 is only 18% complete (as opposed to the 40% advertised by Mark Thurston of @hs2ltd). These same experts revealed the completion date was going to be 2041 for this section months before this was admitted. They also say cost of scrapping £10bn | 39 |
| 1640263893044822022 | @NAOorguk @HS2ltd @transportgovuk Who could have predicted that the austerity fetishists’ insistence on redesigning Euston several times to ‘save costs’ would actually cost more… | 38 |
| 1639921344799186945 | @ojngill @British_Airways @premierinn @SadiqKhan @UKLabour @HS2ltd @Telegraph And demand based pricing has been around since BR days. It was called selective pricing then. The Cross Country franchise introduced the facility to buy a cheap "Advance" ticket up to minutes before departure. We're not as backwards as politicians think!! | 37 |
| 1640050573629112321 | As @HS2ltd move clocks forward one hour a spokesman admits that they might do it every week to try and make 2040 get here quicker. With #HS2 everything is possible 😂 https://t.co/9wg5EKgAQ8 | 28 |
| 1638520903226073098 | When an engineering magazine produces polls like this, time must surely be up for @HS2ltd @TheGreenParty @BrightGrn @stophs2 @GreenAgainstHS2 @GreenJennyJones https://t.co/peoXYvuFdK | 27 |
Top 3 Languages Used In Tweets
Top 10 Hashtags used
| Hashtag | Count |
|---|---|
| #hs2 | 158 |
| #stophs2isdead | 29 |
| #infrastructure | 18 |
| #euston | 13 |
| #greenwash | 11 |
| #tunnelling | 11 |
| #rail | 10 |
| #engineering | 10 |
| #stophs2 | 9 |
| #highspeedrail | 7 |
Top 10 Hashtags Used In Tweets
Top 10 mentions
| Mention | Count |
|---|---|
| @hs2ltd | 932 |
| @matthewjdalby | 117 |
| @stellastafford | 98 |
| @transportgovuk | 91 |
| @naoorguk | 89 |
| @frances_cutler | 69 |
| @williambarter1 | 56 |
| @stophs2 | 54 |
| @huwmerriman | 52 |
| @paulmbigland | 42 |
Top 10 mentions
Wordcloud of Tweets
Emojis
Average number of emojis used per tweet
23
Emojis used in tweets
| Emoji | Count | Emoji Text |
|---|---|---|
| 😂 | 28 | face_with_tears_of_joy |
| 🤦♂️ | 14 | man_facepalming |
| 🤣 | 12 | rolling_on_the_floor_laughing |
| 👉 | 11 | backhand_index_pointing_right |
| 👇 | 11 | backhand_index_pointing_down |
| 👍 | 10 | thumbs_up |
| 🤷♂️ | 10 | man_shrugging |
| 🛤️ | 10 | railway_track |
| 👀 | 7 | eyes |
| 🕵️♀️ | 6 | woman_detective |
Emojis groups
| Emoji Group | Count |
|---|---|
| People & Body | 90 |
| Smileys & Emotion | 73 |
| Travel & Places | 22 |
| Animals & Nature | 12 |
| Objects | 9 |
| Symbols | 6 |
| Flags | 2 |