Analysis of people’s perception on the retirement of Pope Benedict

Benedict XVI, leader of the Catholic Church as well as the Sovereign of the Vatican City State and elected as 265th pope on 19th April 2005 made an interesting announcement that he will resign at the end of February because of his “advanced age�. He is the first Pope to resign after Gregory XII, who left office in 1415. The search for Benedict’s successor will start after his retirement on February 28th, 2013, a process called Papal Conclave.

But the question is “What are the reactions of people on the retirement of Pope Benedict?�

Here are the key findings of the people’s perception based on the sentiment analysis performed using myRosys:
1. After the analysis of Pope Benedict’s resignation on the social media, we found that 132 comments (24.5%) had a positive response and appreciated the decision of resignation, 100 comments (18.6%) had a negative response on the resignation of Pope Benedict and 306 comments (56.9%) had a neutral tone towards the resignation.
2. There is much more talk about Pope Benedict’s resignation on GooglePlus than any other social media network, almost 3.1 times more than Twitter, which holds the second position.

Detailed results of the people’s perception of the sentiment analysis performed by myRosys

After the analysis of Pope Benedict’s resignation on the social media, we found that 132 comments (24.5%) had a positive response on Pope’s resignation, 100 comments (18.6%) had a negative response on the Pope’s resignation, and 306 comments (56.9%) had a neutral tone towards resignation.

Noise analysis performed by myRosys

myRosys defines Noise as the number of time a particular keyword has been mention in Social Media, “more the mentions more the noise.�
myRosys monitored social media buzz around Pope Benedict’s resignation in all the major social media networks and found:

GooglePlus is the most popular social network for discussions on Pope Benedict’s resignation.

Here are some comments posted by Pope Benedict fans, myRosys shows both the comments as well as the sentiment of the comments: