LAST 24 HOURS IN A NUTSHELL: Top House hashtags: #nhpolitics #climatechange #bluewave Top Senate hashtags: #keeptexasred #choosecruz #maga INTERESTING CLIMBERS #teammorse (16th place House): A strong showing for Democrat Jessica Morse in California 04, running against incumbent Tom McClintock. A key issue here: Morse is a strong backer of Christine Blasey Ford, whose allegations McClintock Read more about Sept. 30 trends: Fossil fools and magatalk[…]
LAST 24 HOURS IN A NUTSHELL: Top House hashtags: #taxscamfitz #gotv #goptaxscam Top Senate hashtags: #choosecruz #keeptexasred #teamjohnjames Interesting climbers: #americafirst (4th place House): A popular general tag for the #maga crowd. Used across a number of districts, but standing out here following a very strong fundraiser by GOP candidate Danny Tarkanian in NV03. Read more about Sept. 28 trends: Focusing on the local, not the hearings[…]
LAST 24 HOURS IN A NUTSHELL: Top House hashtags: #beavoter #30years #flipthehouse Top Senate hashtags: #keeptexasred #confirmkavanaugh #scotus Interesting climbers: #mariposadebate (4th place House): Used by Democrat Jessica Morse referring to her debate against GOP incumbent Tom McClintock in California 04, and fairly widely picked up by supporters. #believesurvivors (13th place House): Expressing solidarity with the women Read more about Sept. 25 trends: #Confirmkavanaugh? or #Believesurvivors?[…]
Summary: The surge in #TXSen tweets around Friday’s Ted Cruz – Beto O’Rourke debate gives us an excellent chance to compare the features of active Twitter posters from both camps. We find that Cruz’s top 200 #KeepTexasRed posters continue to skew toward the midrange of “Problematic” (average: 62.83%) on the Bot Sentinel’s “trollbot” scale. By contrast, Read more about Cruz “trollbot” ratings remain high through O’Rourke-Cruz debate surge[…]
LAST 24 HOURS IN A NUTSHELL: Top House hashtags: #va10debate #flippablue #electpawomen Top Senate hashtags: #betomania #betofortexas #txsenatedebate Interesting climbers: #forthepeople: This appears to be part of a fairly substantial tweet campaign from Democrats in Pennsylvania, supporting candidates particularly in PA05 and PA06. #workersdeservemore: Another hashtag from the PA05 and PA06 Democrats. #protectourcare: While also Read more about Sept. 22 trends: Debates and tweetstorms[…]
LAST 24 HOURS IN A NUTSHELL: Top House hashtags: #truth #bluewave #takeitback Top Senate hashtags: #keeptexasred #choosecruz #txlege Interesting climbers: #arpx (12th place House): A shorthand for “Arkansas politics.” Used here primarily by Democrat Clarke Tucker, whose GOP rival (and incumbent) French Hill declined to attend a televised candidate debate. #waelex (18th place House): Shorthand Read more about Sept 20 trends: Bigfoot’s #truth, GOP win in Texas[…]
With deeper data analysis, we’re seeing still more worrisome signs that Ted Cruz’s recent Twitter surge has been driven by bots or other manipulative accounts. The upshot here? In a comparison between the 200 most active posters in the #TXSen race and the 200 most active posters in all other competitive races, the #TXSen posters (almost Read more about Ted Cruz’s trollbot army, looking conclusive edition[…]
LAST 24 HOURS IN A NUTSHELL: Top House hashtags: #takeitback #redtoblue #bluewave Top Senate hashtags: #keeptexasred #choosecruz #letsflymi Interesting climbers: #betomania (7th place Senate): An indication that Texas Democrat Beto O’Rourke is beginning to crack into the top-Twitter lists. Largely used by strong supporters (not necessarily in-district), rather than by the campaign itself. Closely followed by Read more about Sept 17 trends: Blue House, Red Senate[…]
Today comes a look at Ted Cruz’s Really Great Twitter Performance (TM) from a different angle, combining Pollchatter.org data with other projects’ research into bot and troll behavior. Yesterday we found clearly suspect behavior from at least one of Cruz’s strong supporters – in that case, the improbable posting of two simultaneous posts, with precisely identical to-the-second Read more about Ted Cruz’s (bot?) army, pt. 2[…]
For the last several days, we’ve been promising a look under the hood at Sen. Ted Cruz’s fairly astonishing Twitter performance, using the Pollchatter.org data. As previously noted, the numbers on his Tweets have been very consistently higher than any other district in the nation, usually by quite a substantial amount. Much of this is Read more about A data-driven look at Cruz’s (bot?) army[…]