Election Day | Tweet Data Analysis

Overview

Tweets covering

8 days

Latest tweet was on

2022-11-08

Earliest tweet was on

2022-10-30

Total number of tweets analysed

177542

Average age of authors' accounts

7 years

Types of Tweets

Number of Retweets

36944

20% of total

Number of Original tweets

67248

37% of total

Number of tweets that were Quotes

13202

7% of total

Number of tweets that were Replies

63846

35% of total

Number of tweets that contain Hashtags

30398

17% of total

Number of tweets that contain Mentions

109753

61% of total

Devices Used to Tweet

Top 5 Devices

Source	Count
Twitter for iPhone	60983
Twitter Web App	53101
Twitter for Android	35386
Twitter for iPad	6281
TweetDeck	3219

Device Distribution

Top 10 Accounts by Followers

Username	Name	Followers count
BarackObama	Barack Obama	133335957
CNN	CNN	60453758
nytimes	The New York Times	54627314
NBA	NBA	40512696
JoeBiden	Joe Biden	36371057
NFL	NFL	31637962
Google	Google	27420050
FoxNews	Fox News	22864602
WSJ	The Wall Street Journal	20312363
KamalaHarris	Kamala Harris	20101350

Top 10 Accounts by Friends

Username	Name	Followers count
shwood	Brian Brushwood	743747
jilevin	Jeffrey Levin 🇺🇦	608881
BarackObama	Barack Obama	574188
soledadobrien	Soledad O'Brien	427560
bynsny	Larry Kelly	326903
DC_ASSEMBLERS	FURNITURE ASSEMBLY EXPERTS - DC MD VA Baltimore	266483
sandikrakowski	Sandi Krakowski	242552
Variety	Variety	232966
varepall	VRA	224783
TIMENOUT	TIMENOUT	211553

Most Active Users

Username	Number of tweets
corrigan_david	258
RichRocha7	205
HelenArmstrong5	181
Bigcricket467	162
Timesmithing	144
ZeitgeistClown	135
usasharenews	129
Rhondizzle3	108
JesusNarrowWay	95
jeguru1	82

Tweets Per Day

Top 10 Tweets by Retweets

ID	Text	Retweet count
1588384805045301248	just so were all clear, Musk is firing half of Twitter's staff, including huge swaths of their content moderation capability, four days before opening up identity-confirmation-free verification to the whole …	22154
1588166677417558022	Remember this on election day. This year and in 2024 https://t.co/VIWEtlnOhd	10600
1588248219904925696	Don’t let anyone tell you young people don’t show up to vote. We are — and we will continue to show up these last five days until Election Day, including …	8523
1587889784621522947	There’s nothing like a triple-thick black and white milkshake to celebrate my granddaughter Natalie’s first time voting. Make your plan to vote early or on Election Day at https://t.co/Hy8C4mIL2M. https://t.co/o4cNMzeqsU	7615
1588949922468237312	MUST WATCH before election day Here is 9 minutes of Democrats saying, “DEFUND THE POLICE!” https://t.co/Pv2NCGh4EB	7529
1588673988649136129	Texas Republicans have decided to close all public schools in Austin on Election Day. They say it’s to prevent school shootings. Baloney. This is just another voter suppression tactic. Parents …	6922
1586772733282721793	It’s not books about the holocaust or racism that killed 17 of my classmates and educators. It was a 19 year old white nationalist who legally bought an AR-15. Books …	6864
1587914746438615041	More evidence that young people are not staying home: this time in 2018, only 11,535 young Democrats in PA cast their ballot. Now, six days away from Election Day, more …	6212
1589634448706109443	I’m Josh Shapiro — Democratic nominee for Governor of Pennsylvania. Tomorrow is Election Day. And I’m running against an extremist looking to take our state back decades. Retweet this tweet …	6015
1589704201776828417	What. The. Hell. Elon Musk just REMOVED the misinformation policies from Twitter’s rules. Twitter is also not flagging stolen election lies as misinformation. Election Day is tomorrow. Democracy dies with …	5751

Top 10 Tweets by Likes

ID	Text	Like count
1588384805045301248	just so were all clear, Musk is firing half of Twitter's staff, including huge swaths of their content moderation capability, four days before opening up identity-confirmation-free verification to the whole …	109280
1587889784621522947	There’s nothing like a triple-thick black and white milkshake to celebrate my granddaughter Natalie’s first time voting. Make your plan to vote early or on Election Day at https://t.co/Hy8C4mIL2M. https://t.co/o4cNMzeqsU	67978
1588166677417558022	Remember this on election day. This year and in 2024 https://t.co/VIWEtlnOhd	41282
1589647560850939909	BREAKING NEWS: Elon Musk makes election day choice https://t.co/yivvEK5IZX	34330
1588248219904925696	Don’t let anyone tell you young people don’t show up to vote. We are — and we will continue to show up these last five days until Election Day, including …	31243
1587914746438615041	More evidence that young people are not staying home: this time in 2018, only 11,535 young Democrats in PA cast their ballot. Now, six days away from Election Day, more …	28898
1588174705546051585	5 days out. Here’s what’s happening: turnout among young Democrats in the places that matter are skyrocketing while turnout among young Republicans are plummeting. Don’t let anyone tell you young …	27285
1586772733282721793	It’s not books about the holocaust or racism that killed 17 of my classmates and educators. It was a 19 year old white nationalist who legally bought an AR-15. Books …	23050
1589704201776828417	What. The. Hell. Elon Musk just REMOVED the misinformation policies from Twitter’s rules. Twitter is also not flagging stolen election lies as misinformation. Election Day is tomorrow. Democracy dies with …	20267
1588246421563535360	What exactly is the excuse for why we can't have all the votes counted the day of the election?	18077

Top Languages Used

Top 10 Hashtags

Hashtag	Count
#vote	3073
#electionday	1758
#election2022	1052
#voteblue	758
#election	757
#gotv	659
#votebluein2022	651
#votebluefordemocracy	509
#midterms2022	487
#gapol	368

Top 10 Mentions

Mention	Count
@elonmusk	1715
@tomfitton	1148
@proudelephantus	984
@joebiden	955
@potus	923
@rainnwilson	834
@joncoopertweets	785
@samanthamarika1	738
@richardgrenell	719
@gop	710

Wordcloud of Tweets

Emoji Analysis

Average emojis per tweet:

28

Emojis Used

Emoji	Count	Emoji Text
🇺🇸	4360	United_States
💙	2506	blue_heart
🗳️	2422	ballot_box_with_ballot
🗳	2412	ballot_box_with_ballot
🚨	1792	police_car_light
✅	1488	check_mark_button
😂	1448	face_with_tears_of_joy
🌊	1238	water_wave
🤣	1059	rolling_on_the_floor_laughing
❤️	890	red_heart

Emoji Groups

Emoji Group	Count
Smileys & Emotion	13867
Objects	8094
Symbols	7508
People & Body	6891
Travel & Places	5705
Flags	5441
Activities	1495
Animals & Nature	1175
Food & Drink	923

Election Day - Tweet Data Analysis