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Cracking The Code On Trump Tweets (time.com)

jIyajbe writes: From Electoral-Vote.com: "A theory has been circulating that the Donald Trump tweets that come from an Android device are from the candidate himself, while the ones that come from an iPhone are the work of his staff. David Robinson, a data scientist who works for Stack Overflow, decided to test the theory. His conclusion: It's absolutely correct. Robinson used some very sophisticated algorithms to analyze roughly 1,400 tweets from Trump's timeline, and demonstrated conclusively that the iPhone tweets are substantively different than the Android tweets. The former tend to come later at night, and are vastly more likely to incorporate hashtags, images, and links. The latter tend to come in the morning, and are much more likely to be copied and pasted from other people's tweets. In terms of word choice, the iPhone tweets tend to be more neutral, with their three most-used phrases being 'join,' '#trump2016,' and '#makeamericagreatagain.' The Android tweets tend to be more emotionally charged, with their three most-used phrases being 'badly,' 'crazy,' and 'weak.'" reifman adds: In an excellent forensic text analysis of Trump's tweets with the Twitter API, data geek David Robinson demonstrates Trump authors his angriest, picture-less, hashtag-less Android tweets often in the morning, while staff tweet from an iPhone with pictures, hashtags and greater joy mostly in the middle of the day. Robinson's report was inspired by a tweet by artist Todd Vaziri. As for why Robinson decided to look into Trump's tweets, he told TIME, "For me it's more about finding a really interesting story, a case where people suspect something, but don't have the data to back it up. For me it was much more about putting some quantitive details to this story that has been going around than it was about proving something about Trump's campaign."

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  1. Next up for debunking by burtosis · · Score: 5, Funny

    Donald trump is just a shill for the Clintions put in place to ruin the Republican Party and get Hillary elected.

    It's getting harder for me to take that as completely tin foil hat conspiracy theory.

    1. Re:Next up for debunking by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      It's getting harder for me to take that as completely tin foil hat conspiracy theory.

      The only question is why would Republican voters be stupid enough to go along with it.

      Oh wait.

    2. Re:Next up for debunking by Stuarticus · · Score: 3, Funny

      I've often thought if I was fabulously wealthy I would pay two sportsmen to both throw a match, but not tell them, obviously this would need to be a single player event like Tennis. Maybe someone else had the same idea with the election?

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  2. Re:I wish they could do that for news... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Its the dishonest press. Trump would be such a great president, and they just spread lies about him!

  3. TRUMP 2016 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    He will make america great again!

  4. Re:Trump is the one who's thinking by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
    Phony news site Slashdot, that nobody reads, makes up story about phones and tweets. STUPID EDITORS! #CrookedHillary #Trump2016 #makeAmericaGreatAgain

    ftfy

  5. Let me guess...sent from your Android? (nt) by Brannon · · Score: 4, Funny

    nt

  6. Re:I wish they could do that for news... by murdocj · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just like if you believe in evillootion. It has "evil" right in the name!

  7. Re:Thanks Media by quantaman · · Score: 5, Funny

    Imagine if any journalist put as much effort into ANYTHING Hillary Clinton does. What's up with the thousands of work-related emails she didn't turn over? Who's gullible enough to believe she installed a private server to send pictures of her grandkids? Why do many of the most repressive dictatorships in the world keep giving so much money to the Clinton foundation?

    The only answer you ever get to any of these questions is "Shut up you can't prove anything" which is true, but the same can be said of Al Capone and OJ Simpson. We're just expected to take the word of a politician with countless lies already under her belt.

    If only someone could find a major News network that would obsessively look for dirt on the Clintons for 20+ years.

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  8. Am I the only one by quantaman · · Score: 4, Funny

    who suddenly feels embarrassed to be using an Android?

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    1. Re:Am I the only one by Stuarticus · · Score: 4, Funny

      That's why whenever Pol Pot comes up and people are talking negatively about him I always like to add some balance to the conversation. Like "I'm sure if there were trains he would have made them run on time", or maybe "the good thing was he was really unpredictable, which was fun".

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  9. Re:I wish they could do that for news... by Darinbob · · Score: 5, Funny

    Facts have an anti-Trump bias.