Mudslinging on web focused on Villar, Aquino

By Beth Morrissey, Princeton-in-Asia Fellow, ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs

Posted at 03/18/2010 6:06 PM | Updated as of 03/22/2010 3:30 PM

Gordon has most 'positive posts'

MANILA, Philippines - Senator Benigno 'Noynoy' Aquino III and Senator Manny Villar are the presidential candidates in the 2010 elections that have generated the most mentions and posts on the Internet, according to a study released Wednesday by NetBooster Asia, an online marketing and advertising agency.

The study, which surveyed information about five presidential candidates, shows that the most online mudslinging and negative campaigning is posted by those Internet users discussing Villar and Aquino. The data from the survey indicates that Villar has generated the most negative sentiment online, closely followed by Aquino.

The study is a “snapshot” of social media behavior and trends, according to Marck Rimorin, Social Media Officer for Netbooster Asia. “The public should see the study as demonstrating the power of the internet,” said Rimorin, who led the team that conducted the study.

The study notes that “online sentiment for Villar was positive following the fallout from the C-5 investigation, but drowned out after he released a new TV commercial.”

Villar has the greatest post volume regardless of sentiment, according to the survey results. The study also shows that Aquino’s post volume started to rise after an incident between “The Buzz” co-hosts Kris Aquino and Ruffa Gutierrez.

According to the study, “the blogosphere, while initially hostile to Aquino because of the involvement of the Kris-Ruffa squabble, started praising him once again at the expense of Villar.”

Gordon has most positive posts online

Presidential candidate Richard Gordon has the most consistently positive posts online, according to the study. Although Gordon has a low volume of posts, the study shows he has almost zero negative posts.

The study also notes that administration candidate Gilbert Teodoro has the most consistent increase in posts with positive opinion.

Alexa, a third-party web application, was used in the study to rate the traffic on the official websites of the presidential candidates. Aquino’s official website is ranked the highest, followed by Villar and Teodoro.

The study indicates that the top search trends for the websites of the Presidential candidates are the names of candidates, but that a significant amount of the traffic funneled to candidates’ websites results from search trends related to rival candidates.

The top search trends that lead to Joseph Estrada’s website are based on former presidents, according to the study.

Aquino, Villar Facebook fan winners

Aquino and Villar are “neck-and-neck” in terms of number of fans on their Facebook fan pages, according to the study, with 869,298 and 822,637 fans respectively as of the time of the study.

The study notes that “people are more willing to engage and participate with their chosen candidates as fans than as friends. Conversations in fan pages are also more active than they are in friend pages.”

Estrada’s campaign was the earliest adopter of the social networking platform Twitter, according to the study, having created the account @PresidentErap on May 10, 2009. Gordon was the last candidate to adopt Twitter. The study shows that account @dickgordon2010 was created on October 31, 2009.

According to the study’s data, the Twitter account with the most followers is not the one with the most tweets. The Twitter account @noynoyaquino has the greatest number of followers, with 37,911. The account has only 47 Tweets. The Twitter account @Manny_Villar has 172 tweets and 1,311 followers. The account @giboteodoro has 32 and 10,376 followers.

“Most positive sentiments on Twitter are for the LAKAS-Kampi tandem of Teodoro and Manzano,” according to the study.

Far from Obama campaign

“We’re far from duplicating the social media campaign of Obama,” said Rimorin when asked how an online campaign in the Philippines could replicate the success of Barrack Obama’s 2008 new media campaign during the US presidential elections. Rimorin recommends that candidates in the Philippines audit their websites and pay close attention to the issues that are important to Internet users.

“It seems their supporters are doing more for them then they are doing for their supporters,” said Rimorin, noting that candidates often do not engage Internet uses who are connected to their social networks or who are posting information about the presidential candidates.

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73 comments

Si Villar ay TUNAY!

by nagmamalasakit on Fri, 04/09/2010 - 20:47

Si Manny Villar ay

TUNAY NA SINUNGALING ! ! !

TUNAY NA MANGGAGANTSO ! ! !

TUNAY NA MANLOLOKO ! ! !

MAGNANAKAW PA ! ! !

CORRUPT ! CORRUPT ! CORRUPT !

TRAPO ! TRAPO ! TRAPO !

NOYNOY CORRUPT WALANG BINATBAT

by caisainc on Wed, 04/07/2010 - 22:16

Kung hindi mayaman ang magulang ni Noynoy, ano kaya sya ngayon.
A).Matandandang bakla
B).palamunin
C. Bugaw sa subic
d. All of the above
Masamang magsalita sa iba pero mas maiging maintindihan ng tao. Sa ngayon bakit si Noynoy CORRUPT
1.) pamangkin nya kinocorrupt nya kahit ayaw sa kanya
2.) Nasa dugo na yan, bloodline ika nga, ang mga ninuno, ancestor ni Noynoy mga landgrabber niloko nila ang mga natives o katutubo sa kanilang lugar para maangkin ang libo-libong ektaryang lupa ng luisita
3. Kinocorrupt nila ang mga nasa gobyerno regidtry of deeds, DENR, Assessor para maipangalan sa kanila ang mga libo-libong ektarya parreho lang sila ng pamilya ni Mar Roxas.
4. Ngayon si Noynoy nakikipaglokohan sa mga financier nya na kasama nilang lolokohin ang sanbayanang pilipino.
Tumilamsik man o bumula man ang laway ni Noynoy sa bibig sa pagsasalita laban sa corruption mahirap paniwalaan. Peke at walang binatbat

Sa PARAISO ni VILLAR, MARAMI NA SILA!

by nagmamalasakit on Wed, 03/31/2010 - 21:22

Naranasan mo na bang PUMATAY ng MAHIHIRAP?

Upang MAAGAW ang MUNTING dampa na bunga ng kanilang SIKAP?

Si Manny VILLAR! ARMALITE at DAHAS ang pangtapos sa MAHIHIRAP!

(Subaybayan ang kwentong buhay ng mga taong biktima ng LAND GRABBING ni VILLAR sa Paradise Park, San Pedro Laguna, sa Norzagaray, Bulacan, sa IloIlo, sa Las Pinas,. . . WOW! Malapit nang BUONG PILIPINAS!)

MANNY VILLAR!!! HINDI LAMANG C5 AT TAGA! ! !

ALAM AT GINAGAWA LAHAT NG KLASE NG PANGWAWALANGHIYA!!!
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Ang Mga Senador ni Villar, Tunay na OPO-POPOSISYON !

GILBERT REMULLA, ADEL TAMANO, PIA CAYETANO, TOOTS OPLE , RAMON MITRA, GWEN PIMENTEL, SATUR OCAMPO, LIZA MAZA, BONGBONG MARCOS, ARIEL QUERUBIN, MIRRIAM DEFENSOR SANTIAGO, BONG REVILLA

OPO, Gusto naming maging BILYONARYO, tulad ni VILLAROYO!

OPO, PARARAMIHIN namin ang MAHIHIRAP para marami ang MANGARAP!

OPO, MagpapaTUTA kami kay MANNY, para EVERYBODY HAPPY!

OPO! OPO! OPO! OPO! OPO!OPO! OPO! OPO! OPO! OPO! OPO!OPO!

If I will vote Noynoy

by jaiho on Tue, 03/30/2010 - 19:27

If I will vote Noynoy, I felt that Kris Aquino will be our president. lol. noynoy has nothing to prove except his being the son of cory whose first act as president was to remove the hacienda luisita from the land reform list. then there is the massacre, not 1 but 2 massacres under their name! noynoy was so arrogant in explaining the 2nd massacre telling people that they are not really farmers from luisita. they are farmers of their estate. if in case they are not, he has no right to massacre them! then, there is the sctex where he lobbied that their farm be included in the construction of that highway. they were paid but did not share it to the farmers who tilled that land for so long. Now, my conscience tells to go for manny villar. he achieved great things from his humble beginning up to where he has positioned himself today. and along his success are number of people that he had helped and still helping to count them all. he for sure knows how to save a sinking ship. mine is just an opinion, not a campaign for him

Sa PARAISO ni VILLAR

by nagmamalasakit on Tue, 03/23/2010 - 21:53

Naranasan mo na bang PUMATAY ng MAHIHIRAP?

Upang MAAGAW ang MUNTING dampa na bunga ng kanilang SIKAP?

Si Manny VILLAR! ARMALITE at DAHAS ang pangtapos sa MAHIHIRAP!

(Subaybayan ang kwentong buhay ng mga taong biktima ng LAND GRABBING
ni VILLAR sa Paradise Park, San Pedro Laguna, sa Norzagaray, Bulacan,
sa IloIlo, sa Las Pinas,. . . WOW! Malapit nang BUONG PILIPINAS!)

MANNY VILLAR!!! HINDI LAMANG C5 AT TAGA! ! !

ALAM AT GINAGAWA LAHAT NG KLASE NG PANGWAWALANGHIYA!!!

Baki hindi tayo boboto kay VIllar

by Yogi on Tue, 03/23/2010 - 16:11

1) Sinungaling. Mahirap daw... Eh private scholl silang
magkakapatid, Government employee ang tatay, vendor ang nanay.

Hindi ko alam kung ito na ang mahirap kay Villar, ano na kaya
tawag nya sa milyun2X mga hindi kumakain ng tatlong beses sa isang
araw... DAGA?

2) Umaabuso sa pwesto. Makailang instances na na ginamit ni Villar ang
posisyon nya para sa kanyang sariling kapakanan at negosyo.

- UTang sa gobyerno kung saan bawal.
- mga batas na pabor sa kanyang mga negosyo, kung saan bawal.
- mga lupaing agrikultural na naconvert to subdivisions kahit
bawal.

3) Corrupt. Ang C5 extension ay isang monumental na katiwalian sa
gobyerno. kahit pagbaliktarin mo man, kumita talaga sya dito.
Iniba para dumaan sa kanyang mga subdivision, overpriced na
RRW payment. tsktsktsk

4) Nang-agaw ng Lupa. Ang mga magsasaka sa Bulacan ay walang kamalay-
malay na ang titulo nilang hawak ay nagmistulang PEKE dahil noong nasunog ang DEEDS office, when they ask for reconstitution, di na pwede dahil may may-ari pala.. BSP na ang may-ari ng lupa na nila dahil naISangla ni Villar at di nabayaran ang utang..

KUng gaano ka garapal, hayun pati titulo gawa sa panahon ng HAPON..
Kung saan walang CIvil office... GARAPAL.

5) Mapaglinlang at mamanipulang tao.
mga may-ari ng lupa na binilhan ni Villar, biglang nagulat
dahil noong naIbenta na ang lupa, may SM palang itatayo sa tabi nito..

Alam natin gaano ito ka tuso, kung alam lang ng mga land owners, di nila ibebenta ng mura or not at all.. Pero si Vilalr, inutakan ang mga pobreng mahihirap... Ngayun sabi nya maka-MAHIRAP daw sya..

6) NagVoVote buying. Namimigay ng Scholarship sa pangangampanya..
Hindi daw vote buying ito.. lelong mo lokohin mo.

7) Naglalaway sa posisyon. 2-3 years ago ng nagampanya ito,
gumagastos ng bilyun pera para sa ads lang.. tapos sasabihin to play the playing field?

Kung gusto nya patas, sana sa election period na sya ngCampaign.
kung gusto nya patas, sana di sya gumagastos ng sobra sa takda ng batas.

Bakit alam ba nyang may tatakbong SIKAT na si NOYNOY/
Nahulaan nya bang mamamatay si Cory?

8) TAmad. Makailang session na syang ABSENT sa senado.
Ito ba ang gusto natin.. pagNanalo di na mhagilap..
May batas daw na naipasa... puro helmet at planting trees naman..
O kayay chainsaw.

9) Nanunuhol. Maraming nagAakusang tinanagkang suhulan.. si Enrile, Gordon, Erap at Jamby.

not to mention the his arch-enemeis na naging buddy-buddy na nya nagyun. LOREN at JOKER..
Ebough proof already.

Ang dami pa...
wag natin kalimutan..

Eh tumatakbo pa lang yan.
kay dami ng sacndalong lumilitaw...
Pano pa kung presidente na..

beware of yourself.mag-inggat

by parasabayan on Tue, 03/23/2010 - 14:40

beware of yourself.mag-inggat sa mga paratang niyo. makaNOYNOY man or makaVILLAR. nakakasakit kayo ng damdamin. kung binato ka ng bato, batuhin mo ng pinapay. hayaan nyo sa lang sila. Malay nyo baka mali ang paniniwala nyo na magnanakaw si --. mahalin natin ang kapwa natin. yan ang sabi ng Diyos sa atin.

Baki hindi tayo boboto kay VIllar

by Yogi on Mon, 03/22/2010 - 11:37