What is a theme?
A theme encompasses aspects as:
- A person(such as Boris Johnson)
- A company (such as the government of the European Union)
- A city or country
- A thing or concept (such as Education, Safety, ...)
How are the themes determined?
Every 24 hours, govtrackr retrieves the Tweets of the relevant personalities and political parties, and analyses these publications using the InLinks software.
InLinks then returns the list of topics identified in each post.
Govtrackr then identifies the most mentioned themes from those posts arousing the strongest engagement (i.e., the greatest number of reactions: likes and comments)
Why are some themes not appearing?
The identification of topics can sometimes contain errors or omissions. It is important to remember first that only Twitter posts are analysed. A topic mentioned only in a TV interview will not appear here.
In addition, the analysis of themes is carried out considering the context they’re mentioned in. As most of the posts contain only a few words, it can happen that certain topics are not identified correctly.