Anna Gabriel, the earliest to tweet on October 1st
The CUP's politician Anna Gabriel was the earliest to tweet on October 1. She did so at 05:31, with a retweet from Endavant (OSAN), the pro-independence organization of which she is a member, which said: “Good morning to all the people who are guaranteeing that schools will open. Strength, courage, joy. Let's be there!” and attached a photograph of a demonstration with the slogan 'Not a step back'.
An hour later, at 06.37, he is followed by Albano Dante Fachín , now former leader of Podemos in Catalonia after he broke his membership card on November 6. (2 tweets in a row). He explains that he is in Breda, “A small town that today seems very big” and in which a video of the crowd gathered at the gates of this school in the region of La Selva can be seen.
The third person to tweet is the vice-president of the government at the time, Oriol Junqueras. He does so with a tweet that, under the title “Let's cross the forest together”, aims to summarize an appearance of his on the television program 8 al Dia, which he adds, in which he explains that, paraphrasing the philosopher Terricabra, if there are 1000 people who have to cross the forest, the ones who are afraid are the ones who are waiting in the forest and want to scare. If a person crosses a forest alone, he is afraid, but if 1000 people cross it, the one who is afraid is the one who wants to scare. ????
14 minutes later, Lluís Rabell , leader at the time of Catalunya Sí que es Pot, a party that has since been reconstituted under the acronym Catalunya en Comú, tweets. He retweets an article by Guillem Martínez on the ctxt blog of the newspaper Público.
The leader of the PP in Catalonia, Xavier Garcia Albiol , is the fifth to tweet on October 1. He does so in Spanish, at 8:18 a.m., to attack the Government and the major of the Mossos at the time, Josep Lluís Trapero. He accuses the Government of subjecting the police force to “unprecedented discredit.”
Four minutes later, the President of the Parliament, Carme Forcadell, retweets information from channel 324 in which it is reported that the electoral census will be universal to "guarantee the vote even if there are closed polling stations."
A tweet that was also retweeted, at 8.41, by President Carles Puigdemont and added this comment in his first tweet of the day: "Everyone who wants to vote will be able to do so. Do what convinces you the most: all options are equally legitimate. Let's do it with the usual civility!"
The leader of Ciudadanos in Spain, Albert Rivera, is the eighth to tweet at 09.11. And he also does it in Spanish, like the leader of the PP, to warn that "in these days we are risking Spanish democracy" and assures that "the majority of Catalans are against the separatist CUP", an explanation he makes in a video that he attaches to this tweet.
After Rivera, Pablo Iglesias follows in the ranking. The first tweet from the Podemos leader is to denounce the police violence that marked the election day. At 9.42 he tweets “Blows, shoves, old women dragged away. What the PP is doing to our democracy disgusts me. Corrupt, hypocritical, useless”.
In tenth position appears Miquel Iceta, first secretary of the PSC, who tweeted for the first time at 1:03 p.m. to upload a post from his personal blog that, under the title "Declaration on the events of October 1st", called for the "immediate" cessation of police violence and called on Rajoy and Puigdemont to dialogue to avoid "lesser evils" after recalling that on October 1st there was no "effective, binding and guaranteed referendum".
The same denunciation of police violence was made by his Spanish counterpart, Pedro Sánchez , at 2:17 p.m., in a tweet that became the second most commented on during the day: "Today is a sad day for our democracy, we don't like what we are seeing or what the world is seeing. Serenity and dialogue!" is included in this tweet that paraphrases the statement of the PSOE's organizational secretary, José Luis Ávalos, and which he also attached as an image.
In twelfth position appears the president of the Spanish government. Mariano Rajoy tweeted for the first time that day at 7:49 p.m. and did so to retweet a tweet from La Moncloa announcing that his appearance would start at 8:15 p.m.
The last person on our list to use Twitter on October 1 was the leader of Ciudadanos in Catalonia. Inés Arrimadas tweeted a quarter of an hour before the end of the day and in her first tweet she retweeted some statements from her party's account that included an interview with 8TV in which she said that "as a Catalan" she is "very sad". "We are absolutely devastated and a very important part of CAT is being excluded", she added.
Albano Dante, the most active and Pablo Iglesias, the first in own content on Twitter
With 49 tweets, the former leader of Podemos in Catalonia, Albano Dante Fachín, was the most active on Twitter during the Catalan self-determination referendum. He is closely followed by the dismissed vice-president Oriol Junqueras, with 47 tweets, while Carles Puigdemont and Pablo Iglesias are tied for bronze on the podium, with 41 tweets. Pedro Sánchez closes the list with just two tweets, followed by Inés Arrimadas with 6 and Carme Forcadell, with 7.
But, of all these tweets, how many are your own content?
In this ranking, Pablo Iglesias is the politician who generates the most content of his own on Twitter with 20 tweets of his own on October 1. He is closely followed by Albano Dante, with 19 tweets, while in third place is Mariano Rajoy, with 13, and behind him is Carles Puigdemont, with about ten tweets. At the tail end is Inés Arrimadas, who does not have any tweets of his own content that day, while Anna Gabril only has one, and Albert Rivera and Pedro Sánchez are tied at two tweets of their own.
Pablo Iglesias, the most retweeted, with the most 'likes', the most comments and the most own content
Pablo Iglesias is the politician who has the most impact and interaction on Twitter during the day of October 1. His tweets gain in the number of retweets, likes, comments and own content.
Which is the most retweeted? Well, one published at 10.09am, with photographs of those injured during the police charges and in which, with the hashtag #NoEnMiNombre and 38,522 retweets, the leader of Podemos reproached Mariano Rajoy for the violence perpetrated by the National Police against Catalan voters. A tweet that became the second with the most 'likes' (34,879) on this social network that day. The one with the most likes and the most comments on the network is this one: “Punches, shoves, dragged old women. What the PP is doing to our democracy disgusts me. Corrupt, hypocritical, useless”, with 47,225 and 9,300, which also became the second most retweeted tweet.
In fact, five tweets by Pablo Iglesias top the list of the most retweeted which, in turn, are also the ones that have been liked the most on the network and in all of them, the Podemos leader strongly denounces police excesses.
The second most retweeted politician and with the most 'likes' is Carles Puigdemont, who achieved 9,417 retweets and 17,904 'likes' with a tweet published at 10:55 p.m., once the vote had ended: "(1) To you, who have taught the world the civility of a peaceful people, who have resisted harassment and repression, I thank you" and attached a video of the speech he gave that evening at the Palau de la Generalitat, accompanied by his Government.
Oriol Junqueras is the third politician to get the most retweets, with a screenshot of a CNN news story, which gets 5,530 retweets under the title “The Shame of Europe” and which the ERC leader shares, to denounce a toll of injuries that reaches a hundred that day. However, third place in the ranking of 'likes' is won by Carme Forcadell, who gets 9,896 likes with this tweet: “Thanks to all of you who made this unforgettable day possible despite the excessive violence of the State. Thank you very much”.
On the contrary, Lluís Rabell is the politician with the fewest retweets, the fewest 'likes' and the fewest comments that day. It coincides that the tweet with the fewest followers, with only 3 retweets, 4 likes and 4 comments, is one in which the leader of Catalonia Sí que es Pot quotes an article from La Vanguàrdia that takes stock of the number of injured and adds that the events "certify Rajoy's political failure. In front of Catalan society. In front of plurinational Spain" and published at 9:17 p.m.
As for the comments, after Pablo Iglesias and Pedro Sánchez, this tweet by Mariano Rajoy appears in the ranking, the third most commented on Twitter: "We note the strength of democracy, the effectiveness of institutions, the loyalty of its public servants and citizen responsibility", published at 9:25 pm and which becomes the last one written by the president of the Spanish government.
