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

177,542

Average age of authors' accounts

7 years

Types of Tweets

Number of Retweets

36,944

20% of total

Number of Original tweets

67,248

37% of total

Number of tweets that were Quotes

13,202

7% of total

Number of tweets that were Replies

63,846

35% of total

Number of tweets that contain Hashtags

30,398

17% of total

Number of tweets that contain Mentions

109,753

61% of total

Devices Used to Tweet

Top 5 Devices

Source	Count
Twitter for iPhone	60,983
Twitter Web App	53,101
Twitter for Android	35,386
Twitter for iPad	6,281
TweetDeck	3,219

Device Distribution

Top 10 Accounts by Followers

Username	Name	Followers count
BarackObama	Barack Obama	133,335,957
CNN	CNN	60,453,758
nytimes	The New York Times	54,627,314
NBA	NBA	40,512,696
JoeBiden	Joe Biden	36,371,057
NFL	NFL	31,637,962
Google	Google	27,420,050
FoxNews	Fox News	22,864,602
WSJ	The Wall Street Journal	20,312,363
KamalaHarris	Kamala Harris	20,101,350

Top 10 Accounts by Friends

Username	Name	Followers count
shwood	Brian Brushwood	743,747
jilevin	Jeffrey Levin 🇺🇦	608,881
BarackObama	Barack Obama	574,188
soledadobrien	Soledad O'Brien	427,560
bynsny	Larry Kelly	326,903
DC_ASSEMBLERS	FURNITURE ASSEMBLY EXPERTS - DC MD VA Baltimore	266,483
sandikrakowski	Sandi Krakowski	242,552
Variety	Variety	232,966
varepall	VRA	224,783
TIMENOUT	TIMENOUT	211,553

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 …	22,154
1588166677417558022	Remember this on election day. This year and in 2024 https://t.co/VIWEtlnOhd	10,600
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 …	8,523
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	7,615
1588949922468237312	MUST WATCH before election day Here is 9 minutes of Democrats saying, “DEFUND THE POLICE!” https://t.co/Pv2NCGh4EB	7,529
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 …	6,922
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 …	6,864
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 …	6,212
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 …	6,015
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 …	5,751

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 …	109,280
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	67,978
1588166677417558022	Remember this on election day. This year and in 2024 https://t.co/VIWEtlnOhd	41,282
1589647560850939909	BREAKING NEWS: Elon Musk makes election day choice https://t.co/yivvEK5IZX	34,330
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 …	31,243
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 …	28,898
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 …	27,285
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 …	23,050
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 …	20,267
1588246421563535360	What exactly is the excuse for why we can't have all the votes counted the day of the election?	18,077

Top Languages Used

Top 10 Hashtags

Hashtag	Count
#vote	3,073
#electionday	1,758
#election2022	1,052
#voteblue	758
#election	757
#gotv	659
#votebluein2022	651
#votebluefordemocracy	509
#midterms2022	487
#gapol	368

Top 10 Mentions

Mention	Count
@elonmusk	1,715
@tomfitton	1,148
@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
🇺🇸	4,360	United_States
💙	2,506	blue_heart
🗳️	2,422	ballot_box_with_ballot
🗳	2,412	ballot_box_with_ballot
🚨	1,792	police_car_light
✅	1,488	check_mark_button
😂	1,448	face_with_tears_of_joy
🌊	1,238	water_wave
🤣	1,059	rolling_on_the_floor_laughing
❤️	890	red_heart

Emoji Groups

Emoji Group	Count
Smileys & Emotion	13,867
Objects	8,094
Symbols	7,508
People & Body	6,891
Travel & Places	5,705
Flags	5,441
Activities	1,495
Animals & Nature	1,175
Food & Drink	923

Election Day - Tweet Data Analysis