Data is drawn in real-time from Twitter via its API - thank you Twitter for provding a really excellent tool. Very common words such as ‘I’ and ‘the’ are removed to avoid clutter.

We take a sample of 200 tweets at the top of erach hour.

The sampling approach means there might sometimes be more active tweets or words - but generally it seems tro be an accurate indicator of activity.

For the words - the larger the word the more often it occurs. Click on a word to see it in context.

Links take you direct to Twitter.

The timeline at the top of the page covers all tweets tagged #auspol not just our sample.

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