Most online chats on the Oscar Pistorius murder trial on Tuesday focused on a Twitter post by his former girlfriend, Samantha Taylor.<\/p>\n
This was according to information compiled by media monitoring group, Data Driven Insight.<\/p>\n
Taylor, who has testified in the trial, wrote: “Last lies you get to tell. You better make it worth your while,” on her Twitter page earlier this morning.<\/p>\n
She later deleted the tweet. It had already been retweeted hundreds of times.<\/p>\n
While delivering her testimony several weeks ago, Taylor said she and Pistorius broke up because he had cheated on her with his now dead girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.<\/p>\n
Steenkamp was shot dead through a locked bathroom door by Pistorius at his home on Valentine’s Day last year. He claimed to have mistaken her for an intruder.<\/p>\n
Tuesday marked Pistorius’s second day in the dock.<\/p>\n
While his testimony has covered some important issues, most of it has been dominated by him breaking down.<\/p>\n
DDI said Pistorius had spent 17.59% of his testimony breaking down.<\/p>\n
Around 9.53% of the testimony was dominated by him talking about his late mother.<\/p>\n
The DDI said the information was compiled from data analysed from Monday until midday on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
This was before Pistorius gave a detailed account of what happened on the morning he shot and killed Steenkamp.<\/p>\n
The case of honeymoon murder-accused Shrien Dewani also dominated the news on Tuesday taking up 31.37% of the media coverage.<\/p>\n
It still came second against the Pistorius case, which occupied 35.59% of the total South African news coverage.<\/p>\n
“Over the past 24 hours, countries yielding the most publicity for the Pistorius trial were the US, UK, Germany, Australia and France,” said DDI.<\/p>\n
South Africa was sixth on the list.<\/p>\n
The data was compiled from 6.2 million social media platforms which included blogs, forums, social networks and commentary.<\/p>\n
It also included data from 60,000 global online newspapers, 2000 South African print publications and 66 radio and television stations.<\/p>\n
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