Tweets Analysis - Keyword: @jaivirdi
Overview
Total number of tweets analysed
64
Earliest tweet was on
2023-03-17
Latest tweet was on
2023-03-26
Tweets covering
9 days
Average age of authors' accounts
10 years
Summarization
The tweets cover various topics related to the Deaf community, including concerns about technology for ASL and machine translation of signed languages, the cultural history of sign language, and the burden of communication being put on deaf people. There are also mentions of a presentation on disabled related research and praise for a keynote speech by Jaipreet Virdi's niece. Some tweets express skepticism about certain technology designed to assist with sign language communication, such as sign language gloves and an AI that can recognize hand shapes. Additionally, there are messages of support and solidarity for Virdi, who is a cancer patient.
Topic Modeling
- Deaf community and technology for ASL/sign languages
- Critical view on journalistic claims about machine translation of signed languages
- Presentation and discussion of cripping deaf-related research
- Cultural history and nuances of sign language
- Personal and supportive messages
Emotional Analysis
The emotions expressed in these tweets are varied, but some common themes include frustration with technology not accurately representing or understanding signed languages, pride and support for members of the Deaf community, and a sense of connection and solidarity with others. Some tweets express anger or disappointment with the way hearing people try to understand or communicate with Deaf individuals, while others express enthusiasm for events or technological advancements that benefit the Deaf community. Overall, there is a strong sense of community and solidarity among those tweeting about Deaf culture and language.
Trend Analysis
- Criticism of machine translation for sign languages
- Importance of involving Deaf signers in development of sign language technology
- Discussion on linguistic and cultural aspects of sign language
- Personal updates and expressions of support
- Skepticism towards sign language technology and its effectiveness
Types of Tweets
Number of Retweets
21
Percentage of total tweets
32%
Number of Original tweets
1
Percentage of total tweets
1%
Number of tweets that contain Mentions
64
Percentage of total tweets
100%
Number of tweets that were Replies
41
Percentage of total tweets
64%
Number of tweets that were Quotes
3
Percentage of total tweets
4%
Number of tweets that contain Hashtags
5
Percentage of total tweets
7%
Top 5 devices used to tweet
| Source | Count |
|---|---|
| Twitter for iPhone | 27 |
| Twitter Web App | 26 |
| Twitter for Android | 11 |
What devices were used to tweet
Top 10 accounts with highest followers count
| Username | Name | Bio | Followers count |
|---|---|---|---|
| SFdirewolf | Alice Wong 王美華 | Disabled oracle. Founder, @DisVisibility. Author of debut memoir, YEAR OF THE TIGER, available now! https://t.co/hJnu4IpHvj | 73,799 |
| myHNN | History News Network | History News Network is the leading website putting events in the news into historical perspective. Retweets are not endorsements. | 22,485 |
| jaivirdi | Jaipreet Virdi | Historian & Author | Disability ScholarActivist | Associate Professor at @UDelaware | Working on DEAF FUTURITY | Deaf & forever a radical | 16,462 |
| jmhenner | Jon Henner | Deaf. Enduring Melanoma. | Disability Linguistics | I guess I do language stuff? And education stuff? | T. in own capacity | he/👉 | 8,020 |
| jahochcam | Julie A. Hochgesang, PhD | Deaf Linguist Mama. 📸-er. lastname /hoʊkˌsæŋ/ 👉/she/they #ASLSignbank #GlossGesang #EmboxedDiscourse #MoLoASL #O5S5ASL #MamaBrain #NoParticularOrderMostDays | 4,396 |
| missundaaztood | fish is deaf as hell 🐠 | chaotic dyke, multimedia designer, I rollerskate, and make deaf-related content in my free time • she / they ☼ | 4,074 |
| EllieTheElement | Dr Ellie Armstrong (she/her) | Social studies of outer space | PDRA @stockholm_uni | Prev @udelaware (PD), @AvSpaceMuseum @cambridgehps (visit.) @ucl (PhD) | Co-runs @SSiC_Tweets, @femini_sts | 3,457 |
| KatBrockway | Kathleen L. Brockway | Deaf Author of several published books including Lantz Mill Deaf Village | A deaf culture and history expert | Presenter| Passion is the key‼️ Earned MA ‘22. | 3,220 |
| charlhyde | Charlotte Hyde | museum meme enthusiast | deaf accessibility advocate + freelance writer | she/her | opinions my own | 3,038 |
| _louhicky | Louise Hickman | Dr Louise Hickman Disability + Tech + Work Research Associate @MCTDCambridge at University of Cambridge + PhD @UCSDComm Image by @shanfinnegan | 2,282 |
Top 10 accounts with highest friends count
| Username | Name | Bio | Followers count |
|---|---|---|---|
| SFdirewolf | Alice Wong 王美華 | Disabled oracle. Founder, @DisVisibility. Author of debut memoir, YEAR OF THE TIGER, available now! https://t.co/hJnu4IpHvj | 4,078 |
| EllieTheElement | Dr Ellie Armstrong (she/her) | Social studies of outer space | PDRA @stockholm_uni | Prev @udelaware (PD), @AvSpaceMuseum @cambridgehps (visit.) @ucl (PhD) | Co-runs @SSiC_Tweets, @femini_sts | 3,562 |
| punkscience8 | (((Stargazer Alpaca))) | 📚🎶🌸🎤 Kindness First. Birds and Blooms: I take People Free Days:) Joined April 2012 | 3,538 |
| myHNN | History News Network | History News Network is the leading website putting events in the news into historical perspective. Retweets are not endorsements. | 2,946 |
| jahochcam | Julie A. Hochgesang, PhD | Deaf Linguist Mama. 📸-er. lastname /hoʊkˌsæŋ/ 👉/she/they #ASLSignbank #GlossGesang #EmboxedDiscourse #MoLoASL #O5S5ASL #MamaBrain #NoParticularOrderMostDays | 2,671 |
| john_a_carranza | John A. Carranza | Postdoc @utaustinihs. Historian of medicine & disability. I specialize in sex education, reproductive technologies, and public health. | 2,575 |
| cuteasbutton87 | คřțî♡ | music is my life. world traveler, treat people with kindness ✌ I tweet my heart on my sleeves. #BlackLivesMatter #justiceforbritney #gorapsgo she/her | 2,173 |
| vrobe001 | Victoria Robertson | - | 1,948 |
| _louhicky | Louise Hickman | Dr Louise Hickman Disability + Tech + Work Research Associate @MCTDCambridge at University of Cambridge + PhD @UCSDComm Image by @shanfinnegan | 1,816 |
| Sakeozo | Sakeozo 🍵 | Destiny Slater • Comic Artist & Animator • Deaf • 🦎🏳️🌈 • ♓️♍️♐️ • My hair color was cool before it became cool 😎👉👉 | 1,716 |
Most active users
| Username | Bio | Number of tweets |
|---|---|---|
| HStiles1 | Cantwara Maegth; Loves rain, sleet, snow, mist, fog, natural history, Norfolk, Norway, Norwich, Natural Selection, Norse. Did I mention rain? Rain! (tw)It! 🤪 | 8 |
| jaivirdi | Historian & Author | Disability ScholarActivist | Associate Professor at @UDelaware | Working on DEAF FUTURITY | Deaf & forever a radical | 5 |
| jmhenner | Deaf. Enduring Melanoma. | Disability Linguistics | I guess I do language stuff? And education stuff? | T. in own capacity | he/👉 | 4 |
| challdreams | PhD&PMP, scientist, Infectious diseases, pediatric cancer, ex academic post-doc, ex industry, Leafs fan (hockey love), marathoner, 🇸🇪 in the USA {she/her} | 3 |
| HearInThisWorld | 🇲🇽. Hard-of-hearing. Ph.D. (first-gen grad). Currently writing. | 2 |
| IsnTbel | pro abortion, anti lawn | 2 |
| KatBrockway | Deaf Author of several published books including Lantz Mill Deaf Village | A deaf culture and history expert | Presenter| Passion is the key‼️ Earned MA ‘22. | 2 |
| Pooja_POCP | Pacific NW Native. Desert Dweller. Recovering Product Mgr. Optimist. Practice Lead, Point-of-Care Partners. Opinions are my own. #HealthIT #Pharmacy #WomeninHIT | 2 |
| 1iane | pfizer pack deaf cat-loving alumna goffik princess of gallaudet she/her/hers ♑︎ ☉ || ♍︎ ☽ || ♊︎ ⇡*Views expressed are my own | 1 |
| diyasar31616750 | - | 1 |
Tweets per day
Top 10 tweets with highest Retweet count
| ID | Text | Retweet count |
|---|---|---|
| 1638554439836467207 | @jaivirdi I’ve seen a lot from the Deaf community that do not like or agree with this. It’s also not accurate too. I feel like technology for ASL (or other signed languages) would be different and probably more effective/useful if it were created by a team of Deaf signers. | 3 |
| 1638688961097875456 | @jaivirdi I'm sticking to my 🙄 as quoted in @michaelerard's 2017 (!) piece https://t.co/H3BqcQX2l4 | 2 |
| 1636829660951584774 | @HStiles1 @jaivirdi @CocchiniGrove It’s not going to stop. People are crazy. (Adding that sex education isn’t a thing in many schools/states in the USA. “Freedom for parents” etc.) | 1 |
| 1637832159196004355 | @jaivirdi That body is a surviving body. We love it and what it represents. | 1 |
| 1638576659392614402 | @missundaaztood @jaivirdi so basically no none of these are accurate and people should just learn sign instead of trying to train a robot to learn it for them | 1 |
| 1638518260520853506 | @jaivirdi The discourse is done to death. It doesn’t do what the journalist claims it does. There’s much better machine translation of signed languages out there. But farcical claims drive clicks and engagements from the abled. | 1 |
| 1638570779678765057 | @jaivirdi I spoke with Deaf linguistics after they reviewed a machine learning app at a major tech company. They were dismissive of the cultural history of sign language and focused on hand gestures over facial expressions (rather together). | 1 |
| 1636901734147579904 | @HStiles1 @jaivirdi @CocchiniGrove Personally I think it’s more harmful since men know nothing about female biology. And then the whole thing with consent/exploring your body etc is pretty not ok. Repressive religion as always (?). | 1 |
| 1636901480333553665 | @HStiles1 @jaivirdi @CocchiniGrove Yeah… it’s not “the new era”. (I could say something about women learning about it from their husbands who have experience…. But I don’t think that’s true either. STDs are not uncommon either, go figure?!) | 1 |
| 1637845984071008256 | @jaivirdi Hi Dr. V! I just got back on Twitter, and I'm overjoyed to know you are slowly being restored to health. Sending all the positivity your way! #keepgoing | 0 |
Top 10 tweets with highest Like count
| ID | Text | Like count |
|---|---|---|
| 1638554439836467207 | @jaivirdi I’ve seen a lot from the Deaf community that do not like or agree with this. It’s also not accurate too. I feel like technology for ASL (or other signed languages) would be different and probably more effective/useful if it were created by a team of Deaf signers. | 60 |
| 1638518260520853506 | @jaivirdi The discourse is done to death. It doesn’t do what the journalist claims it does. There’s much better machine translation of signed languages out there. But farcical claims drive clicks and engagements from the abled. | 60 |
| 1637832159196004355 | @jaivirdi That body is a surviving body. We love it and what it represents. | 8 |
| 1637831220892508160 | @jaivirdi Presenting to @DrFionaKyle ‘s lab about if cripping deaf related research is possible. | 7 |
| 1638570779678765057 | @jaivirdi I spoke with Deaf linguistics after they reviewed a machine learning app at a major tech company. They were dismissive of the cultural history of sign language and focused on hand gestures over facial expressions (rather together). | 6 |
| 1638931278694162438 | This is so cool! Our niece was invited to give the keynote at an International Women’s Day event hosted by the the Sikh Women's Organization of Central California. Check out the coverage on the Punjabi news! So proud of you @jaivirdi https://t.co/an758CcCij | 5 |
| 1638519194294648832 | @jaivirdi If you look at what’s coming out of the UK from they Surrey group its BSL. But ASL is the current lingua franca for better or worse. | 5 |
| 1638576493952487424 | @missundaaztood @jaivirdi i once volunteered to train an AI on the ASL alphabet and the people running the project were literally wrong about some of the letters when they tried to “teach me” before filming 🫡 | 5 |
| 1639393241408892929 | @jaivirdi Clarifies the implied audience... | 4 |
| 1638586569409036289 | @jaivirdi I don’t understand the urgent need to “understand the deaf” why not make it that we “understand the hearing” first? This is just another way for hearing people to put the burden of communication on deaf people. | 4 |
Top 3 Languages Used In Tweets
Top 10 Hashtags used
| Hashtag | Count |
|---|---|
| #iwd2023 | 2 |
| #pupdate | 1 |
| #book | 1 |
| #books | 1 |
| #bookstagram | 1 |
| #bookworm | 1 |
| #booklover | 1 |
| #bookish | 1 |
| #booknerd | 1 |
| #bookaddict | 1 |
Top 10 Hashtags Used In Tweets
Top 10 mentions
| Mention | Count |
|---|---|
| @jaivirdi | 64 |
| @cocchinigrove | 7 |
| @hstiles1 | 6 |
| @missundaaztood | 5 |
| @challdreams | 4 |
| @steerewilliams | 2 |
| @michaelerard | 2 |
| @jmhenner | 2 |
| @coreen_anne | 2 |
| @_louhicky | 2 |
Top 10 mentions
Wordcloud of Tweets
Emojis
Average number of emojis used per tweet
10
Emojis used in tweets
| Emoji | Count | Emoji Text |
|---|---|---|
| 🙄 | 3 | face_with_rolling_eyes |
| 🥰 | 2 | smiling_face_with_hearts |
| 👇🏼 | 1 | backhand_index_pointing_down_medium-light_skin_tone |
| 😍 | 1 | smiling_face_with_heart-eyes |
Emojis groups
| Emoji Group | Count |
|---|---|
| Smileys & Emotion | 6 |
| People & Body | 1 |