By The Numbers: How Twitter Reacted To The George Zimmerman Verdict

Expletives not included. In the first 26 hours after the verdict acquitting George Zimmerman in the killing of Trayvon Martin, Twitter exploded. But how do we figure out the balance of interaction on Twitter? What were people saying, and in what proportion? The Pew Research Center, a think tank that releases data from surveys (among other things), worked with Crimson Hexagon, a social media analytics company, to comb through millions of tweets about Zimmerman, Martin, Florida, gun laws, race, an...