After the recent controversy surrounding the Philippine men’s basketball team’s former coach, it was announced that they had named a new coach to lead the team throughout the 2023 Asian Games. Tim Cone, as the new head coach of the Gilas Pilipinas squad, is no stranger to competitive basketball, whether local or international. He already has multiple championship titles on his belt, which cements his credibility as a coach. He was also the coach of the same team at the 1998 Asian Games as well as the 2022 Asian Games. Capstone-Intel Corporation looks into the sentiment revolving around his involvement in the latest sporting event.
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Methodology
From July 7, 2023 up until October 7, 2023, Capstone-Intel utilized its social listening tools in order to scan publicly available social media accounts for their posts that mention “Tim Cone”. It should be noted that there were no specific demographics or personal data that were tracked.
Online presence
The tool itself was able to scan 1612 mentions from various websites. 198 of those mentions come from X (formerly Twitter), 22 mentions on Tiktok, 518 from various news sites, 64 mentions from blogs, and 7 separate forums have also mentioned Tim Cone. 154 of these mentions come from other miscellaneous news sites, and the last 235 mentions come from other videos found on the internet.
On Facebook, there were a total of 502 posts that mentioned Tim Cone, and in total, all the consolidated posts on Facebook were able to garner an engagement score of 165,852.8. This was derived from the total share count of 30,927 and the total reaction count of 1,282,387.
Top Stories
The top story that involves Tim Cone is one that was posted by Basketball Ground on Facebook, which garnered an engagement score of 23,242.9. In specifics, the post was able to gather 87,971 (52.1 percent) Like reactions, 80,328 (47.6 percent) Love reactions, 145 (0.1 percent) Haha reactions, 353 (0.2 percent) Wow reactions, and a count of 2 for both Sad and Angry reactions.
The story with the second highest engagement score is from the Facebook page of One Sports, wherein they liken the return of Tim Cone with the idea of a TOTGA, commonly define as “The One That Got Away”. This was able to garner an engagement score of 18,886. Similar to the top story, it was able to gather 50,861 (37.1) Like reactions, 85,958 (62.7 percent) Love reactions, 51 Haha reactions, 263 Wow reactions, 1 Sad reaction, and 3 Angry reactions.
Finally, the third most engaging post is from user Ramon S. Ang, with an engagement score of 12,268.5. In this post, the user is congratulating the Men’s basketball team for their accomplishments during the Asian Games. This post was able to gather 63,768 (62.8 percent) Like reactions, 37,313 (36.8 percent) Love reactions, 396 (0.4 percent) Wow reactions, 0 Sad reactions, and 2 Angry reactions.
The top stories that mention Tim Cone all follow a pattern of extremely high Like and Love reactions, which indicate an overwhelmingly positive reception of his new position.
The top stories that mention Tim Cone all follow a pattern of extremely high Like and Love reactions, which indicate an overwhelmingly positive reception of his new position.
