Tweets Analysis - Keyword: @KarlBode
Overview
Total number of tweets analysed
312
Earliest tweet was on
2023-03-21
Latest tweet was on
2023-03-30
Tweets covering
9 days
Average age of authors' accounts
10 years
Summarization
The tweets cover various topics related to tech, media, and politics. Some of the main points include criticisms of the Democratic political establishment's embrace of uninterrogated tech utopianism, the need for investigations into the influence of PR teams on news and narratives, the hollowing out of the tech press by rich people buying and shuttering good outlets, and the need for a real privacy law to regulate data brokers. There are also criticisms of certain journalists and their relationships with tech leaders, as well as observations about the ways in which the tech press has treated tech leaders as rockstars without asking serious questions about their utility or business.
Topic Modeling
- Uninterrogated tech utopianism
- Asymmetrical power and internet governance
- Tech glitterati and attention-seeking behavior
- Problems with the political and tech press
- Regulation of data brokers and privacy laws
Emotional Analysis
The tweets express a range of negative emotions including anger, frustration, disappointment, and cynicism towards the political and tech establishment, media figures, and their practices. The common theme is a critique of the lack of critical inquiry and asymmetrical power dynamics in tech and media, leading to questionable practices and narratives. The tweets also express a desire for more accountability and investigative journalism. Overall, the emotions suggest a sense of disillusionment and skepticism towards those in power and the systems they operate within.
Trend Analysis
- Criticism of uninterrogated tech utopianism
- Conflict of interest in media and tech industries
- Lack of accountability and questioning in journalism
- Focus on regulation of data brokers and privacy laws
- Perception of tech industry as spectacle rather than serious business
Types of Tweets
Number of Retweets
83
Percentage of total tweets
26%
Number of Original tweets
5
Percentage of total tweets
1%
Number of tweets that contain Mentions
312
Percentage of total tweets
100%
Number of tweets that were Replies
223
Percentage of total tweets
71%
Number of tweets that were Quotes
25
Percentage of total tweets
8%
Number of tweets that contain Hashtags
1
Percentage of total tweets
0%
Top 5 devices used to tweet
| Source | Count |
|---|---|
| Twitter Web App | 140 |
| Twitter for iPhone | 91 |
| Twitter for Android | 45 |
| TweetDeck | 20 |
| Twitter for iPad | 11 |
What devices were used to tweet
Top 10 accounts with highest followers count
| Username | Name | Bio | Followers count |
|---|---|---|---|
| Techmeme | Techmeme | Top news and commentary for technology's leaders, from all around the web. This account shares top-level Techmeme headlines. Visit our site for full context. | 434,025 |
| lorenzofb | Lorenzo FB / @lorenzofb@infosec.exchange | Real-time historian of the late cyber capitalist era @TechCrunch. Tweets about infosec, surveillance by day. 🍕, ⚽️, 🎸, 🎮 by night. ☎️ +1 917 257 1382 | 51,430 |
| paleofuture | Matt Novak | Founder of https://t.co/gSycNHCzxw. Writing a book about movies U.S. presidents watched in office. Previously: Gizmodo | 30,605 |
| spacetwinks | Colin Spacetwinks | captain's log / https://t.co/Mp2OulafVT / https://t.co/wtQ83qPUbU / words have been at @watchVRV @nymag @uppercutcrit @waypoint / | 27,768 |
| davidgerard | your #1 source for absurdist true crime 🐀 🐍👑 🌷 | Author of books about why cryptocurrency is bad. NOT USING TWITTER right now, DON'T DM HERE. dgerard@gmail.com he/him SEE MY🦣: @davidgerard@circumstances.run | 26,359 |
| damemagazine | DAME Magazine | Broad-minded media for all. mastodon: @damemagazine@newsie.social https://t.co/g084XBUKgR. Support women-led independent journalism https://t.co/9j2YXWwHmz | 23,295 |
| swodinsky | shoshana wodinsky (she/her) is looking for work! | often mistaken for a privacy reporter // +1-516-668-1794 on signal // first dot last at gmail dot com | 23,271 |
| ahcastor | Amy Castor | Independent journalist covering crypto and NFTs. Such a lovely place. Support my work: https://t.co/eO6oCADlWA. | 22,108 |
| quinnnorton | https://social.circl.lu/@quinn | Writer, migrant, burn out, cat servant. Trying to forget more about the internet than you'll ever know. FYI I can't spell. | 21,658 |
| nberlat | Noah Berlatsky | he/him. Bylines: Editorial Board, NBC Think, Independent, Public Notice, Atlantic, WaPo. Poetry chapbooks forthcoming from LJMcD Communications & above/ground | 21,452 |
Top 10 accounts with highest friends count
| Username | Name | Bio | Followers count |
|---|---|---|---|
| tonyserrata | Antonio Serrata 🇺🇦🇺🇲 | Locked up & on Mastodon, Read only here now. Coordinating Producer of The Game Is Up film. Socials are here: https://t.co/tLi8UmOmE2 @antonioserrata@masto.ai | 12,490 |
| Bruno_J_Navarro | Bruno J. Navarro | @bruno_j_navarro@mastodon.social | newsroom veteran, fledgling cellist, former emt | he/they | ex @CNBC, @WWD, @TODAYshow, @NBCNews, @AP, @azcentral | 9,985 |
| swodinsky | shoshana wodinsky (she/her) is looking for work! | often mistaken for a privacy reporter // +1-516-668-1794 on signal // first dot last at gmail dot com | 7,815 |
| unclenate | Unclenate.Ape.Cloud | #Web3 | #ENS | #NFTs | #Cybersecurity #Blockchain #SupplyChain @starprivacy @app_cortex @APEDomains #BullishOnStoics #ArtWins | 7,253 |
| mateosfo | (((Matthew Lewis))) progressive federalism SOS | Climate change, energy policy, baked goods, bicycles = N+1. Free-heeling turn earner. ❤️ YIMBY. Long form: https://t.co/ydMcIbfKLM also: mateosfo@urbanists.social | 7,214 |
| MattJorg4543446 | Matt ‘Evidence-Based’ Jorgensen | Crazed maniac, artist, FX artist, concerned citizen - “Only those who do not seek power are qualified to hold it.” - Plato #TheResistance #CrushTheGOP | 7,136 |
| McReynoldsJoe | Joe McReynolds | Japan urbanism: Emergent Tokyo (2022). China-US NatSec: China's Evolving Military Strategy (2016), China's Information Warfare (2023). 摸着石头过河, learning as I go. | 5,525 |
| Orangeroos | Orangeroos | a little lost. trying to learn. 🍊 🦘 | 5,004 |
| 2022freedom22 | Researcher Sleuth | Moving the needle, one mountain at a time | 5,001 |
| defcon201nj | DCG 201 :: defcon201 🐘hostux.social | Dirty Jersey Represent! We meet at @subculturejc once a month to work on hardware/software projects! Part of @defcongroups. CFP: info (at) defcon201 [dot] org | 5,000 |
Most active users
| Username | Bio | Number of tweets |
|---|---|---|
| tonyserrata | Locked up & on Mastodon, Read only here now. Coordinating Producer of The Game Is Up film. Socials are here: https://t.co/tLi8UmOmE2 @antonioserrata@masto.ai | 12 |
| masonpelt | Sarcasm, and the internet's best opinions. Voice to text is used often. Go to: https://t.co/Mn3nSyuOuM to join the newsletter. I may already see the typo. | 7 |
| ItzSpelledGEOFF | Jaded realist. Rural redlined by not one, but two major ISPs. Tweets are my own, and count against my cellular data cap. Proud member of the #yamfam. | 6 |
| Llama_Strudel | He/Him. Trans Man 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈#TransRightsAreHumanRights | 6 |
| ekr____ | Firefox CTO, trail runner Blog: https://t.co/wJzXSZM1lw Newsletter: https://t.co/zlGrZgu7Cx If you like this stuff, please tell others. | 4 |
| AnthroPunk | Researching how people promote, manage, resist, and endure change; and how they, algorithms, and ethics coexist. (Or not.) SEEKING WORK! Member @SWaveCollective | 4 |
| jmhaigh | advocate for small business & local media issues: #journalism #shoplocal #privacy #consumerchoice #sustainability opinions my own & not necessarily my clients’ | 4 |
| musicandscifi | Linker Sozi. @lovesdaryl@mastodon.social. On https://t.co/aMzd5mhJPA as @lovesdaryl. Followed by MMB 11/18/13 & Norman Reedus 01/21/14. She/her - inactive | 4 |
| neilturkewitz | Arts advocate. Warning about libertarian definitions of freedom that fail to consider asymmetrical power since 1996. Secular humanist writing about religion. | 3 |
| by_caballero | standards @centre_io📯 & @ChainStandards✊;ex🌲; mafia @Decentralizedid 🚧; the-parodic-is-political account; Retweets = huh.; 🇦🇷🇺🇸in🇩🇪;🌹🏳️🌈🤘he/him | 3 |
Tweets per day
Top 10 tweets with highest Retweet count
| ID | Text | Retweet count |
|---|---|---|
| 1640837079423655939 | @KarlBode @Mobute https://t.co/bAy3Rsqrx5 | 13 |
| 1640048858070695936 | Quick reminder WaPo Publisher Fred Ryan is a staunch Republican. Not only Reagan's Chief of Staff he's the current Chairman of the Bd of the Reagan Foundation. Here applauding a statue of Saint Ronnie w/ hyper-partisan Sec @SecPompeo cc: @tomwatson @KarlBode https://t.co/lf9KIIJqtT | 9 |
| 1640836737202262016 | @KarlBode @edzitron She still has her replies turned off after I took her to task for pimping Post for weeks, as an alternative to Twitter, while conveniently not disclosing she was an advisor to them and whether that position was remunerated. So much butthurt for a ‘brave truth teller’. | 5 |
| 1640884502355386368 | @KarlBode The Democratic political establishment bought into this uninterrogated tech utopianism too—mistaking enhancement of the capacity for communication as necessarily liberatory. The original sin of internet governance, completely failing to consider the effects of asymmetrical power. https://t.co/acekbE47UT | 4 |
| 1638195315009536001 | Instead of myopically fixating on TikTok, the US should pass a real privacy law to regulate data brokers, who offer anyone info on US citizens, including China (@karlbode / Techdirt) https://t.co/hkQopE55T3 https://t.co/GxwcD5pXzy | 4 |
| 1640958446160736256 | So @KarlBode is spot on. Forbes, Inc. and a few others leaned way into a hype machine. A lot (h/t @anthonyroberts) of Inc.'s revenue comes from applications to the Inc. 500 / 5,000 list. Anyway here's a thread of some more thoughts. https://t.co/LSrxIg34CN | 3 |
| 1640882653867003905 | @KarlBode @techwontsaveus I mean wasn't the tech press hollowed out by rich people buying and then shuttering good outlets because they weren't money presses? This didn't happen in a vacuum, anything vaguely resembling good journalism was snuffed out. | 2 |
| 1640876835708993537 | @KarlBode @DiNunzioE I always felt like spending way too much time on early 00s transhumanism and extropian boards gave me a good detector for this kinda crap others didn’t. | 2 |
| 1639406787089793025 | @KarlBode @Lunalore @Esqueer_ @evacide Facebook is definitely pushing their own interests in all this, but it's fundamentally inaccurate to call it a "moral panic" when the security risks of TikTok are real and well-documented. | 2 |
| 1638917225842106368 | @KarlBode Best investment Zuckerberg has made in years. https://t.co/0luD6IuIuL | 2 |
Top 10 tweets with highest Like count
| ID | Text | Like count |
|---|---|---|
| 1640837079423655939 | @KarlBode @Mobute https://t.co/bAy3Rsqrx5 | 201 |
| 1640884502355386368 | @KarlBode The Democratic political establishment bought into this uninterrogated tech utopianism too—mistaking enhancement of the capacity for communication as necessarily liberatory. The original sin of internet governance, completely failing to consider the effects of asymmetrical power. https://t.co/acekbE47UT | 57 |
| 1640836737202262016 | @KarlBode @edzitron She still has her replies turned off after I took her to task for pimping Post for weeks, as an alternative to Twitter, while conveniently not disclosing she was an advisor to them and whether that position was remunerated. So much butthurt for a ‘brave truth teller’. | 54 |
| 1639506158225600513 | @SilvermanJacob @KarlBode The “Center Right, traditional Democrat voter” being cited as part of his character resume makes this even funnier | 41 |
| 1640048858070695936 | Quick reminder WaPo Publisher Fred Ryan is a staunch Republican. Not only Reagan's Chief of Staff he's the current Chairman of the Bd of the Reagan Foundation. Here applauding a statue of Saint Ronnie w/ hyper-partisan Sec @SecPompeo cc: @tomwatson @KarlBode https://t.co/lf9KIIJqtT | 30 |
| 1640841579819855873 | @KarlBode @golikehellmachi self-styled Power Broker she is. tech-adjacent but the tech glitterati crave attention and she sells it by the bucketful | 27 |
| 1640806452561428486 | @KarlBode What’s been fascinating this week is watching who criticizes the TikTok ban. Many I thought were independent now seem suspect of big tech support. | 25 |
| 1640833907401564161 | @KarlBode really dying for some investigations into how much news and the narratives over time from them is determined entirely by letting PR teams fill up their pages | 24 |
| 1640882653867003905 | @KarlBode @techwontsaveus I mean wasn't the tech press hollowed out by rich people buying and then shuttering good outlets because they weren't money presses? This didn't happen in a vacuum, anything vaguely resembling good journalism was snuffed out. | 23 |
| 1640872882354921473 | @gloria_sin @KarlBode I don’t listen to her interviews much anymore but when I do I find myself thinking of all sorts of obvious tough questions she just didn’t ask | 19 |
Top 3 Languages Used In Tweets
Top 10 Hashtags used
| Hashtag | Count |
|---|---|
| #cybersecurity | 2 |
| #ai | 1 |
Top 10 Hashtags Used In Tweets
Top 10 mentions
| Mention | Count |
|---|---|
| @karlbode | 312 |
| @anthonyroberts | 8 |
| @mobute | 7 |
| @gloria_sin | 7 |
| @tomaxwell | 6 |
| @jeffehobbs | 5 |
| @lunalore | 4 |
| @esqueer_ | 4 |
| @evacide | 4 |
| @bigblackjacobin | 4 |
Top 10 mentions
Wordcloud of Tweets
Emojis
Average number of emojis used per tweet
3
Emojis used in tweets
| Emoji | Count | Emoji Text |
|---|---|---|
| 💯 | 3 | hundred_points |
| 😂 | 1 | face_with_tears_of_joy |
| 👀 | 1 | eyes |
| 🥲 | 1 | smiling_face_with_tear |
| 😆 | 1 | grinning_squinting_face |
| 🤷♀️ | 1 | woman_shrugging |
| ✊🏻 | 1 | raised_fist_light_skin_tone |
| 😖 | 1 | confounded_face |
| 🙄 | 1 | face_with_rolling_eyes |
Emojis groups
| Emoji Group | Count |
|---|---|
| Smileys & Emotion | 8 |
| People & Body | 3 |