Social Media Sites Dig Nuclear Energy (the graph says so)

Sorry but I just had to make a little blurb about something I found...it reminds me a lot about what we were doing in class with the BP presentations. For example, comparing how media reports certain controversial topics and how geography also affects what is reported. So, I just stumbled upon a site called Social Radar that monitors social media sites to understand how hot topics are being discussed. For those who have no idea what it is (like I didn't) Social Radar's site says: "Social Radar is a social analytics application that collects billions of articles and messages from millions of sources such as blogs, social networks, news sources, microblogs, forums, and more to provide instantaneous insights and measurement into online chatter."  It can even count positive vs negative talks on a subject and where in the world the talking is coming from. Cool, huh?

I pulled up the nuclear energy topic on Social Radar...turns out that they had a graph specifically made to describe the social media conversations from before the Fukushima incident to after. Social radar even determined if the conversation had positive or negative (describing nuclear energy) context. The graph (below) actually has some really interesting data.   

Graph from Social Radar

Before the accident, most of the social media conversations about nuclear energy were "positive". However, once the Fukushima incident happened negative comments took over, which we all could have predicted. The surprising part is that now it seems that people are once again talking positive. I knew nuclear energy would overcome this...but that was fast.