Bernanke announces recession technically over

On September 15, 2009 Bernanke announced that he believed the recession was over -- technically. His statement was reported on September 16 by The Washington Post.

The search term used was: "bernanke recession over"

There were almost a thousand tweets on the 15th, and the number fell every day after that. The chart with the trend over time is:

It was a very quick drop: 906, 650, 89, 61, and then between 30 and 10.

By the 27th the stream had slowed to just over 10 a day. They were still on topic for the most part, but they were few enough that continuing to collect messages seemed pointless. All told 1902 messages were found.

There were

The .txt file that can be read by Excel to acquire the data is: bernanke recession over-cleaned.txt