Numbers Show How Trump’s Tweets Drive the News Cycle

The graph below somewhat resembles a strong motion recording from an earthquake. It is a recording of an earthquake, just not the geologic kind!

Kalev Leetaru:

“…Since April 20, 2016, the GDELT Project has tracked all of the tweets linked to by online news media worldwide in 65 languages. Over that time, GDELT has tracked 868,539 articles that linked to a Donald Trump tweet. Of the president’s roughly 44,200 tweets to date, 13,539 (31%) have appeared in the news, reinforcing just how much his Twitter account helps to drive global journalism.

The timeline below [above] shows a seven-day rolling average of the number of online news articles worldwide each day that linked to one of Trump’s tweets…

…Trump’s most popular tweet of all time in terms of media coverage from 2016 to 2019 was his resurfaced 2012 statement about global warming, followed by his July 2018 warning to Iran, his March 2017 “wires tapped” tweet, his November 2016 illegal voting claim and his January 2018 “nuclear button” boast…”

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Doug Santo