Posts tagged "Twitter"

Special Counsel Robert Mueller's now-concluded investigation into the Trump campaign and Russian influence over the 2016 presidential election was obviously a hot topic on Twitter. More than 400,000 tweets — an... Read more →

President Trump thumbed his way through another year in the White House on Twitter, compiling a good (great) collection of 2,930 touts, complaints, defenses and rants. He left 2018 with... Read more →

My wife (@elisewho) and I (@stiles) had a silly social media moment yesterday when I replied to one of her tweets — despite the fact that she was sitting in an... Read more →

Last week I attended the UNITY journalism conference in Las Vegas, and during my stay I ingested more than 9,000 tweets that had the #UNITY12 hashtag. This line chart shows... Read more →

I've posted more than 3,700 tweets since early 2009, when I began archiving my data. This chart, made with Raphaël JS, shows which days and times were most common (see the interactive... Read more →

Dozens of technologists and journalists today descended on Google’s beautiful Mountain View, Calif., campus for a discussion about technology and journalism. The conference, organized by the Center for Investigative Reporting, led to... Read more →

Following Nathan Yau’s excellent tutorial for creating heat maps with time series data (he used vehicle accidents by day for a year), I visualized 3,559 of my tweets back to... Read more →

Using Tableau Public, my NPR colleague Andy Carvin visualized thousands of his tweets about the Arab Spring:  View larger, interactive version Read more →

This app, Tweet Topic Explorer, creates proportional symbols based on the frequency with which you use specific words. Here are my tweets since early April. This isn’t a surprise, I... Read more →

Reaction to New York Times editor Bill Keller’s recent piece about Twitter appears to be mixed — at least according to a quick sentiment analysis of related tweets.  See… Excellent... Read more →

One hundred is the new 140 on Twitter, according to my wife. How am I doing? My tweets since August 2009:  Tweets: 1523. Average tweet: 89 characters. Longest tweet: RT... Read more →

This is an oldie, but a goodie: A color-coded chart that helps decipher the Twitter API, created by the company’s platform services lead, Raffi Krikorian. Each color represents a different field of... Read more →