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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. Re:I wish they could do that for news... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The press is really a bunch of criminals. They should be forced to share a cell with Hillary, who is a criminal as well.

  2. Re:Thanks Media by lucm · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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

    They found plenty of dirt, it wasn't even difficult.

    -An embarrassing lover and witness to their various fraudulent schemes was murdered and they pressured the police to call it a suicide
    -On his last day in office, Bill Clinton pardoned more people that the sum of all previous presidents. The going rate was 300k, paid to one of his family members.
    -The Clintons framed the head of the White House travel office (who was there since Kennedy) to replace him with one of Hilary's cronies
    -Several women who filed complaints of sexual misconduct against Bill Clinton were bullied or threatened until they withdrew their complaints; one of them even had her dog killed, and one recognized a member of Hilary's entourage as the man who told her she could get raped "for real" if she didn't withdraw her complaint
    -She lies all the time. She lied about being rejected from the Marines and NASA for being a woman, but got away with it because there was no proof it didn't happen. She lied about being under sniper fire and got caught that time because there was a video of the "incident".

    The reason you never hear about this is not because it didn't happen or because nobody was looking for it. The reason is that damaging stories about democrat politicians are consistently underplayed by the liberal media which has the biggest market share. The liberals are also good at scrubbing wikipedia. The article about Vince Foster is a fascinating example of that, look at how it constantly got "corrected" to remove the bulk of the case against Clinton.

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    lucm, indeed.
  3. Re:Thanks Media by lucm · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    If you think travelgate, whitewater and Vince Foster turned out to be nothing, then congratulations, you bought into the liberal media narrative.

    As for Benghazi, let's not forget that the Obama team themselves threw Clinton under the bus, the scandal didn't come fromthe other side. Of course once again you're having a liberal bias so you only see the evil republicans.

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    lucm, indeed.