The arrest, after thirty years on the run, of the mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, net of the controversy over the cover-ups received by the mafia boss, is a great victory for justice.
ANSA and DataMediaHub have analyzed the online resonance of this fact.
Online conversations (social media + online news + blogs and forums) were analyzed globally from 16 January, when the news of his arrest broke in the morning, to midnight yesterday 17 January.
In 48 hours almost 100,000 citations by over 20,000 unique authors, whose contents involved (with likes + reactions + comments and shares) more than 1.3 million subjects.
The maximum peak occurred between 10:00 and 10:15 on 106/01, when the news spread, with about 3,000 citations in just a quarter of an hour.
Volume of conversations that generated a potential reach, the so-called 'opportunity to be seen' (i.e. the opportunity they theoretically had on the basis of these volumes of conversations to be exposed to contents relating to Matteo Messina Denaro), of 70, 3 billion views on the topic.
We reasonably estimate that the actual reach stands at 3.5 billion views on the topic.
In practice, theoretically, almost one inhabitant out of two of the planet has come across an online content relating to the arrest of the mafia boss.
And in fact, as the infographic summarizing the results of our analysis shows, in addition to Italy there is a strong participation in this regard also overseas, in France, in Spain and in many other countries as well.
The news of the arrest, given by ANSA, was one of the most captivating contents and from our site it spread throughout the Internet, being taken up on social networks, blogs and other newspapers and online information sites.
Prevalence of positive sentiment, the share of emotions and, precisely, positive feelings contained in the online verbalizations for the joy of the arrest with the negativity that focuses on Denaro's involvement in the murder of Falcone and Borsellino, and more.