Online social tensions, especially after attacks

the hague - Tensions on social media run after attacks or other incidents, such as the Damschreeuwer at Remembrance Day in 2010 or the Project X party in Haren. This is evident from the new Social tensions indicator of the Central Bureau for Statistics (CBS).

The peaks are usually short-lived. However, they follow each other, since the measurement began in January 2010, becoming faster. What is also striking that the social tension off peak to is currently slightly lower than in 2011 and 2012. This is due, according to the CBS along with the reduced sense of insecurity that people have.

CBS took all public tweets and retweets from Dutch users in the analysis. News about sports and politics are filtered from the results because they had a distorting effect.