02-01-2015

The issue of economic growth is debated more in Italy than the rest of the world. Renzi is the most tweeted about after Obama

In the Italian language tweets, the issues relating to "crisis" (24.5% of total tweets) and "employment" (16.4%) remained the key topics over the entire year. Some signs of optimism did however emerge between the first and second half of the year: the issue of "economic growth" rose from 13.1% to 16.2%, whereas that of the "propensity to consume" went up from 10.1% to 14%. Less discussion revolved around "taxes", going from 16% to 15.2%. A similar trend was seen in "access to credit", which went from 14.5% to 11.3%.
Looking at the macro-issue of "propensity to consume", the most widely debated topic was “average household spending” (48.6%). The topic most focused on under the "access to credit" issue was "borrowing" (76.8%). In the context of "economic growth", the most intense debate centred around the "plans for economic development" (42.1%).

It is interesting to see just how frequently the names of leading figures in politics and representing institutions appear at both the global and national levels, even if this is within the context of specific macro-economic conversations.
The names of political and institutional figures mentioned the most in the tweets selected by the Global Economy Analysis were:

AT THE GLOBAL LEVEL (Sept-Nov analysis)
1st Obama
2nd Renzi
3rd Putin
4th Cameron
5th Merkel

IN ITALIAN (Sept-Nov analysis)
1st Renzi
2nd Berlusconi
3rd Squinzi
4th Napolitano
5th Grillo