years of American politics for the next hundred, but it’s impossible to refute this tactical shift: while Bush/Clinton/Obama centrists tried to negotiate through the conventional press corps, two rival factions bypassed the machinery entirely. President Trump discovered how to throw the entire media apparatus into a tizzy with a single tweet, while freshman Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez became the first elected US official to actually speak the internet’s native tongue, deftly using Twitter to marshall support and fire off send-ups of political opponents. Both churn out tweets by the thousands and have 65 million followers between them—AOC’s 5 vs. DJT’s 60. We created a tool to explore all those shots firing across the internet, using data updated daily (downloadable here for Trump’s tweets, and here for AOC’s).
Take a deep, partisan dive into the Twitter archives of Donald Trump and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, with our searchable, sortable, up-to-date tool.
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Like Twitter itself, Ocasio-Cortez's feed is younger, savvier, more whimsical. @AOC’s top emoji’s include flames, flexing, fists, and sassy claps. And what social justice warrior could resist using the occasional money bag?
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How to use this Twitter Machine
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Click on “Words” then “All” to search through their entire tweet corpus, from their first to the last as of the time and day stated in the bottom corner. (It gets updated once a day.) When did Trump’s badgering of @BarackObama reach its fever pitch? What about @HillaryClinton?
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The most straighT-forward way is to simply click around to see what’s been in their tweets over time. go ahead, try this:
Try the same, but click on “Hashtags” instead of “Words”. When did AOC first started using the hashtag #GreenNewDeal?
Each tweet is run through Google’s sentiment analyzer
and given a score of positivity or negativity. The color of a hashtag, for example, reflects the sentiment scores of tweets that contain that hashtag. Trump sees redder when tagging people rather than using hashtags. Find the button for the present month under both “Hashtags” and “Mentions” to see his current mood.
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Find out how many times a particular tweet was retweeted. The size of a bubble indicates the number of times a tweet with that word/hashtag/mention has been retweeted. Trump’s most retweeted tweet is his notorious #FNN meme in July 2017. How many times was that retweeted?
Do the two every speak
directly at one another? Not very often, so don’t get discouraged by an underwhelming search results.
See where These political opposites find common ground on Twitter.
See where These political opposites find common ground on Twitter.
Political scientists will debate the tactical shift of the past two years of American politics for the next hundred, but it’s impossible to refute this tactical shift: while Bush/Clinton/Obama centrists tried to negotiate through the conventional press corps, two rival factions bypassed the machinery entirely. President Trump discovered how to throw the entire media apparatus into a tizzy with a single tweet, while freshman Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez became the first elected US official to actually speak the internet’s native tongue, deftly using Twitter to marshall support and fire off send-ups of political opponents. Both churn out tweets by the thousands and have 65 million followers between them—AOC’s 5 vs. DJT’s 60. We created a tool to explore all those shots firing across the internet, using data updated daily (downloadable here for Trump’s tweets, and here for AOC’s).
