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Friday, 15 February 2008 |
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 Geert Wilders, right wing dutch politician and leader of the PVV (Freedom Party) is the most popular dutch politician on YouTube. Already more than four times the visibility of any other dutch politician, his popularity seems ever increasing over the past few months.
His long awaited and much debated but seen by no-one Islam movie could play a significant role in the high YouTube attention.  
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Thursday, 14 February 2008 |
 Jan Marijnissen, the popular leader of the SP (the 'new' Socialist Party, not to be confused with the traditional socialist party PvdA) is loosing visibility on the Web. After his massive win at the 2006 elections (from 9 to 25 seats in the parliament) his popularity seems to be declining (as many opinion polls suggest). |
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Thursday, 14 February 2008 |
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 Welcome to the new political buzz barometer on dutch politics. Buzztrend is happy to present the first buzz barometer on Dutch politics.
On a regular basis we will follow how leading politicians are discussed in blogs, fora and news sites. We will analyse their visibility and how they relate to specific topics such as immigration, education, taxes and so on. In addition we monitor how the political parties are being seen in the eye of the public. Although not likely to be near general elections, dutch political developments are interesting to follow. After recent events, especially the rising and murder on Pim Fortuyn, (see another article on some background to current Dutch politics) the landscape has become very volatile and unpredictable, and the traditional fous on political parties is being contested by individuals, leaders of certain schools of thought, often more extreme than the traditional parties. |
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Buzztrends 
As was expected, the release of Geert Wilders' 16 minute movie Fitna on 28 March has dramatically increased his visibility, inside and outside The Netherlands. We won't go into a debate on the quality or the justifications of this movie, but show you the impact the movie has on the social media we are tracking. 
