This document provides a daily summary of social media discussions around the third day of the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, NC. Key topics of discussion included #DNC2012, Obama, Obamacare, and Forward2012. Barack Obama's and Joe Biden's speeches received both positive and negative sentiment. Popular links and hashtags are also listed. Statistics on Twitter activity for the DNC and RNC conventions are presented, showing much higher levels of tweets about the DNC. Various DNC event locations are ranked by check-ins on Foursquare.

1. CONVENTIONBUZZ DAY
SEPTEMBER 7, 2012
2012 DNC CHARLOTTE, NC
PRESENTS #DNCBuzz
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DAY 3 OF THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION
As the nation and world turns to the U.S. Presidential Conventions, social media's meteoric rise gives us unprecedented real-time access into the conversations and reactions they spark. Convention-
Buzz provides a daily snapshot of what people are talking about the most, the sentiment surrounding key issues, and the unexpected news of the political convention in Charlotte, NC. These insights
are based on a sampling of more than 200,000 posts on Twitter, Facebook, blogs, forums, and online news sites.
TOP TOPICS #HASHTAGS THE MOST POPULAR OFFICIAL & EMERGING HASHTAGS
DNC2012 232,242 POSTS
1
#DNC2012
OBAMA 57,868 POSTS
2 #Obama2012
OBAMACARE 55,706 POSTS 3
#Forward2012
FORWARD2012 48,650 POSTS 4 #IfObamaDontWin
5 #Biden
OBAMA2012 45,822 POSTS
TWEET BUZZ PROMINENT QUOTED TWEETS OR RETWEETS BEING SHARED
SENTIMENT
HOW DO PEOPLE FEEL ? Barack Obama 3,470 Follow
@ThePresObama RETWEETS
BARACK OBAMA’S SPEECH JOE BIDEN’S SPEECH
Just did my LeBron powder toss backstage. Didn't get a drop on my suit. Game time bitches.
48% 40% #DNC2012 #DNC
Eric Grant 1,645 Follow
@ericgrant RETWEETS
Every retweet this update gets will get the Obama campaign a $5
donation from me. Hurry. #p2 #dnc2012#Obama2012
23.9% LINKS OF NOTE
26% 26% 36%
WHAT ‘S BEING SHARED?
@gov: A new record political moment on Twitter: @barackobama drives
1 52,757 Tweets per minute. Over 9 million Tweets sent about #DNC2012. 3,671 RT’s
Positive Neutral Negative
2 @TheOnion: Obama: 'Help Us Destroy Jesus And Start A New Age Of
Liberal Darkness' http://t.co/uefB4j8g#DNC2012 1,197 RT’s
@BarackObama: Watch live: President Obama accepts the#DNC2012 presidential
OBAMA VS ROMNEY THE MOST TALKED ABOUT TOPICS ABOUT EACH CANDIDATE 3 nomination:http://t.co/lVhdSY8g1,070 RT’s
BETTERPRESIDENT
PROTESTS
PRESIDENTSPEECH
HATE BUSINESS
MICHELE
Right to Life 6136 posts
DNC JOBS
AMERICA BILLWORLD ResistDNC 999 posts
REPUBLICAN OBAMA Undocubus 986 posts
CLINTON
663 posts
FUTURE
GREAT Occupy
323 posts
RNC2012 MoneyOutofPolitics
Obama Romney *Protests groups and terms receiving substantial word of mouth
THE PLACE TO BE 2012 Democratic National Convention | #DNC2012 SPECIAL INSIGHTS
61.0%
The MSNBC Experience DNC 9.5 million total Tweets • RNC 4 million total Tweets
10.9%
Google Hangout Today alone, there were more than 4 million Tweets written specifically about the convention. For context, there were only 1.8
10.1% million total Tweets sent globally, about all topics on Election Day in 2008.
THROUGHOUT THE WEEK IN CHARLOTTE, "POP-UP" LOCATIONS CNN Grill @ DNC
9.9% Barack Obama Twitter peak moments (TPMs)
FOR THE DNC VIED FOR MOST FOURSQUARE CHECK-INS.
52,757
Huffington Post Oasis 43,646: “I'm no longer just the candidate, I'm the President”
HERE'S WHO CAME OUT ON TOP: 4.4% 39,002: “I will never turn medicare into a voucher”
Politico Hub 38,597: Discussing Medicare
3.7% At the conclusion of the President's speech 37,694: “We don’t think government can solve all our problems…”
34,572: Quips about the Olympics and “Cold War mind warp”
CHARLOTTE, NC DNC, 2012
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