U.K. Twitter Users’ Favourite Olympic Moments

ం EDF ENERGY official partner Energy of the Nation As the official electricity supplier of London 2012, EDF Energy has measured the nation's reactions to the Olympic and Paralympic Games - the highs, lows, triumphs and glories - on Twitter and turned those reactions into a social-media-driven 30 minute lightshow every night at 9pm and 10pm on the EDF Energy London Eye. 64% See how the nation celebrated #London2012 on Twitter. Average positivity reading since start of Torch Relay AVERAGE POSITIVITY READING KEY MOMENTS ON TWITTER ON EACH DAY OF THE OLYMPIC GAMES (%) Most positive moment of the day 64% 68%) Team GB women's football team beat 25-Jul New Zealand 69% 26-Jul Highest number of Tweets 64% 27-Jul 47,168 tweets per hour during opening ceremony 72% 28-Jul Most positive moment of the day 71% 29-Jul 79% ) Lizzie Armitstead wins Team GB's first medal in the Women's Road Race 68% 30-Jul 64% 31-Jul 2 most positive moments of the day 76% 1-Aug 76% Team GB claimed two gold medals in the women's pairs rowing and cycling time trial Biggest dip of the Games When Victoria Pendleton and Jess Varnish were disqualified -15% ) from the women's team sprint, 73% 2-Aug the nation's positivity dipped from 86% to 71% 76% 3-Aug The most positive event 90% ) Jessica Ennis won Gold in the Heptathlon 76% 4-Aug 76% 82% Most positive moment of the day 5-Aug Andy Murray won gold 74% 6-Aug Most positive moment of the day 75% 82% Brownlee brothers won gold and 7-Aug bronze in the triathlon 73% 8-Aug Most positive moment of the day 76% 76% 9-Aug Usain Bolt won gold in 200m 73% 10-Aug 73% 76% Most positive moment of the day 11-Aug Mo Farah wins gold in the 5,000 meters 2nd Highest number of Tweets K 68% 12-Aug 46,080 tweets per hour seen during the Games at the Closing Ceremony EDF ENERGY official partner This data reading was taken between July 25th and August 12th using an algorithm developed by Sosolimited in partnership with EDF Energy. The algorithm linguistically analyses tweets about London 2012 from the UK and splits the tweets into positive and negative conversations. For detailed information about how this works, please visit: edfenergyofthenation.com