Tweets Analysis - Keyword: @pblest
Overview
Total number of tweets analysed
172
Earliest tweet was on
2023-02-09
Latest tweet was on
2023-02-19
Tweets covering
9 days
Average age of authors' accounts
8 years
Summarization
Several labor issues have been tweeted about involving Tesla, Starbucks, and universities and colleges. There are new NLRB filings detailing how Twitter has shadowbanned union accounts with Elon Musk being named in the complaint, Starbucks were illegally firing workers for unionizing, and universities/colleges being utilized to gain profits by real estate hedge funds. The tweets have urged support for the workers and to take caution while patronizing businesses.
Topic Modeling
- Tesla and Twitter and CEO Elon Musk
- Starbucks and employee labor rights
- Colleges and real estate hedge funds
- Poor people and Bernie Sanders
- Unionization and shadowbans
Emotional Analysis
The tweets expressed a range of emotions, from anger and frustration at Tesla and Starbucks for their treatment of workers, to admiration for the journalists and researchers who are uncovering the truth about their practices. There was also a sense of hope and optimism that workers will be able to win when they fight back, as well as some concern and worry for the safety of those involved in the reporting. Finally, there was a sense of disappointment and disbelief that shadowbanning is being used to silence the voices of workers.
Trend Analysis
- Unionization
- Employee rights
- Labor relations
- COVID-19 workplace safety
- Corporate Social Media Policy
Types of Tweets
Number of Retweets
44
Percentage of total tweets
25%
Number of Original tweets
7
Percentage of total tweets
4%
Number of tweets that contain Mentions
172
Percentage of total tweets
100%
Number of tweets that were Replies
121
Percentage of total tweets
70%
Number of tweets that were Quotes
6
Percentage of total tweets
3%
Number of tweets that contain Hashtags
2
Percentage of total tweets
1%
Top 5 devices used to tweet
| Source | Count |
|---|---|
| Twitter Web App | 64 |
| Twitter for iPhone | 57 |
| Twitter for Android | 40 |
| Twitter for iPad | 7 |
| TweetDeck | 2 |
What devices were used to tweet
Top 10 accounts with highest followers count
| Username | Name | Bio | Followers count |
|---|---|---|---|
| VICENews | VICE News | Original reporting on everything that matters. Sign up for our newsletter here: https://t.co/RKniEj0B2u | 1,019,782 |
| irishrygirl | Irishrygirl | Enigma, I'm not a snowflake, I'm an avalanche. never claimed to be nice or lady like. I swear a lot. Human rights for#resist #ACA Tik Tok mutha fucka | 109,758 |
| swin24 | Asawin Suebsaeng | senior politics reporter @RollingStone. @vikingbooks author. @journalismUC lecturer. Ex: @thedailybeast. Rolling Stones fan. asuebsaeng@rollingstone.com | 89,290 |
| aaolomi | Ali A Olomi | Writer, Asst. Prof, Historian of MiddleEast & Islam: politics, gender, Islamic esotericism, astrology & science. Host of #HeadOnHistory Podcast / UCI alum | 80,375 |
| borgposting | BORG | retro sci-fi (no AI) art. apocalyptician. ‘the future is already here — it’s just unevenly distributed.’ @thetrillbillies @elcpod @strugglesesh | 41,376 |
| josheidelson | Josh Eidelson | Labor reporter for Bloomberg News and Businessweek, covering the present of work. Email: jeidelson at bloomberg dot net. Pronouns: He, him. (Usual disclaimers) | 32,227 |
| aniceburrito | mike 🔊🦪 | 🌜🧘♂️🌛 | 23,547 |
| nancylevine | Nancy Levine Stearns | Author, The Tao of Pug (Penguin/Skyhorse) | Bylines: Sports Illustrated, Salon, Raw Story, Rantt Media | NYU Stern | #CorpGov | 22,635 |
| Hegelbon | buffing reputation irl to raise credit score | He/Him No Cartridge host; bg @MarcSRousseau Author Story Mode: https://t.co/FfIUmeFqQw… | 17,247 |
| IWWFJU | IWW Freelance Journalists Union | A union for all freelance journalists, bloggers, and other writers in news media. Part of the @IWW. For assistance, please email: freelancejournalists@iww.org | 17,182 |
Top 10 accounts with highest friends count
| Username | Name | Bio | Followers count |
|---|---|---|---|
| irishrygirl | Irishrygirl | Enigma, I'm not a snowflake, I'm an avalanche. never claimed to be nice or lady like. I swear a lot. Human rights for#resist #ACA Tik Tok mutha fucka | 31,878 |
| nancylevine | Nancy Levine Stearns | Author, The Tao of Pug (Penguin/Skyhorse) | Bylines: Sports Illustrated, Salon, Raw Story, Rantt Media | NYU Stern | #CorpGov | 10,991 |
| DocBass4 | DocBass | Shun Trump. Don't repost his words. Don't amplify his voice. Make him invisible and he will become irrelevant faster | 8,897 |
| Caffeinefreak | CaffeineFreak🇺🇦 | 🌙🦉☕️💙💛 #MSDstrong 🦅#GunControl • #DeathSantis No Lists Please • No FBR Parties Please • MSD Mom♥️ | 6,758 |
| JeffreyMeursing | Jeffrey Meursing MA | I am beautiful & male. A thing of beauty is a joy for ever. | 6,106 |
| swin24 | Asawin Suebsaeng | senior politics reporter @RollingStone. @vikingbooks author. @journalismUC lecturer. Ex: @thedailybeast. Rolling Stones fan. asuebsaeng@rollingstone.com | 5,839 |
| josheidelson | Josh Eidelson | Labor reporter for Bloomberg News and Businessweek, covering the present of work. Email: jeidelson at bloomberg dot net. Pronouns: He, him. (Usual disclaimers) | 5,165 |
| LMegaparsec | Liz Schiller #DefundthePolice | Feminist/white/Jewish/parent/gardener. Solidarity is action-@miamckenzie. Courage then action then hope. Interested in trauma. Sometimes I write stuff. she/her | 5,002 |
| vetoshield | SAIF | Philosopher, lawyer and writer. Indian American/Muslim atheist. @UCLA @NYUGSAS @NYUlaw alum. BA/MA in philosophy & JD. Teleologically suspended brb | 5,002 |
| UWDawgFan88 | UW Dawg Fan | - | 5,002 |
Most active users
| Username | Bio | Number of tweets |
|---|---|---|
| Val_Farrelly_ | - | 4 |
| KeyVaIuePair | SAY IT BACK | 3 |
| 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 | 3 |
| Hezerminator | Trans-rokotettu. Homonationalistinen gansteri. #Jesuis Trump. This might be my final form. 🐸🐟 👌👌🏿👌🏻🇫🇮💯 5⃣ 🧱 | 3 |
| reedkinderman | Child of God. Husband to Savanna. Father of Elias. Love family, food, books, news, and politics. Fan of the Buffalo Bills and New York Mets. | 3 |
| DPG0110 | In order to be convincing, you have to look and act like an ordinary jerk. | 2 |
| julesaroscoe | labor reporter @motherboard @vice | something i should know? jules.roscoe@vice.com. any and all opinions my own. | 2 |
| mavbonica1 | Hi, I write poetry, novels and plays. and am a member of the Marlowe Society and a very happy Leicester fan. I am also into grammar, phonics, Euroscepticism. | 2 |
| Steve72800146 | Save the bot comments. I was just too lazy to pick a clever name. | 2 |
| JeremiahSloop | Bed. Saltines. | 2 |
Tweets per day
Top 10 tweets with highest Retweet count
| ID | Text | Retweet count |
|---|---|---|
| 1626609410477809664 | New: Tesla workers say that Twitter has shadowbanned their union account on Twitter in a new NLRB filing. Elon Musk serves as the CEO at both Tesla and Twitter, and he is named in the NLRB complaint. scoop from @pblest: https://t.co/bKckq8sCQd | 373 |
| 1626609140465369088 | cool cool cool. https://t.co/ta1T6OcbU2 via @pblest | 45 |
| 1625254798164389892 | Starbucks made an employee work despite testing positive for COVID. Then, they fired him. Now the National Labor Relations Board says the firing was illegal, and in retaliation to the employee’s unionizing efforts. @pblest reports: https://t.co/MC4H8ZjfB3 | 17 |
| 1623820266139959296 | "Starbucks fired a pro-union barista for 'violating' the company’s social media policy, after he tweeted that he had been asked to come to work even after testing positive for COVID... [Complaint from NLRB] said Ben Scott had been fired illegally" https://t.co/buerbAIQiS @pblest | 16 |
| 1626612854983098369 | @LeahFeiger @pblest "Even if a Twitter user follows the Tesla Workers United account on Twitter, searches for 'Tesla Workers United' and 'united_tesla'—the Twitter account’s handle— do not return tweets from the account." FOLLOW @united_tesla. Stand with workers! ✊ $TSLA https://t.co/9HFTLWiMwf | 5 |
| 1626254417065385987 | NEW: not even two days after Tesla employees in Buffalo announced they were unionizing, the company has fired them. from @pblest: https://t.co/JSidvhDHdp | 3 |
| 1623756436021866496 | @pblest To be fair, universities and colleges haven't been places of learning for decades. It's set-dressing for the real estate hedge funds that they actually are. If they could get away with milking the alumni, investing in property, and not having to teach anything, they would. | 2 |
| 1623845098000904194 | @LeahFeiger @cam_joseph @pblest WHO BANS BOOKS? NAZIS BAN BOOKS. https://t.co/PN940hraFg | 2 |
| 1626352124740218882 | @pblest @nytopinion I wasn’t given 3 months, I took three. Hence why I almost lost the title to another writer. Until I timestamped it on Twitter. It was green lit on spec but no, one does not get paid for *not* writing a (defamatory) article It takes a long time to find things that don’t exist… | 1 |
| 1626610663404589057 | @vrinkles @LeahFeiger @VICENews @pblest @united_tesla | 1 |
Top 10 tweets with highest Like count
| ID | Text | Like count |
|---|---|---|
| 1626609410477809664 | New: Tesla workers say that Twitter has shadowbanned their union account on Twitter in a new NLRB filing. Elon Musk serves as the CEO at both Tesla and Twitter, and he is named in the NLRB complaint. scoop from @pblest: https://t.co/bKckq8sCQd | 843 |
| 1626609140465369088 | cool cool cool. https://t.co/ta1T6OcbU2 via @pblest | 108 |
| 1625254798164389892 | Starbucks made an employee work despite testing positive for COVID. Then, they fired him. Now the National Labor Relations Board says the firing was illegal, and in retaliation to the employee’s unionizing efforts. @pblest reports: https://t.co/MC4H8ZjfB3 | 68 |
| 1623756436021866496 | @pblest To be fair, universities and colleges haven't been places of learning for decades. It's set-dressing for the real estate hedge funds that they actually are. If they could get away with milking the alumni, investing in property, and not having to teach anything, they would. | 37 |
| 1623820266139959296 | "Starbucks fired a pro-union barista for 'violating' the company’s social media policy, after he tweeted that he had been asked to come to work even after testing positive for COVID... [Complaint from NLRB] said Ben Scott had been fired illegally" https://t.co/buerbAIQiS @pblest | 24 |
| 1623782852704849924 | @pblest @RottenInDenmark "I'm to the left of Bernie Sanders. Here's why we need to kill all poor people..." | 23 |
| 1623809894490185728 | @pblest @aaolomi How is this not illegal. This is abhorrent | 20 |
| 1626352124740218882 | @pblest @nytopinion I wasn’t given 3 months, I took three. Hence why I almost lost the title to another writer. Until I timestamped it on Twitter. It was green lit on spec but no, one does not get paid for *not* writing a (defamatory) article It takes a long time to find things that don’t exist… | 20 |
| 1624037676730003456 | @reedkinderman @pblest @Slerner212 Have you considered that the 5 day policy, which only exists because the CEO of Delta whined publicly to get it and has zero scientific basis, is immoral and part of the reason COVID cases remain astronomically high? | 16 |
| 1626612854983098369 | @LeahFeiger @pblest "Even if a Twitter user follows the Tesla Workers United account on Twitter, searches for 'Tesla Workers United' and 'united_tesla'—the Twitter account’s handle— do not return tweets from the account." FOLLOW @united_tesla. Stand with workers! ✊ $TSLA https://t.co/9HFTLWiMwf | 16 |
Top 3 Languages Used In Tweets
Top 10 Hashtags used
| Hashtag | Count |
|---|---|
| #10219978 | 1 |
| #media | 1 |
| #nepnieuws | 1 |
Top 10 Hashtags Used In Tweets
Top 10 mentions
| Mention | Count |
|---|---|
| @pblest | 172 |
| @leahfeiger | 48 |
| @vicenews | 17 |
| @cam_joseph | 17 |
| @united_tesla | 16 |
| @nytopinion | 10 |
| @ejrosetta | 8 |
| @elonmusk | 6 |
| @slerner212 | 6 |
| @phonedthisin | 4 |
Top 10 mentions
Wordcloud of Tweets
Emojis
Average number of emojis used per tweet
5
Emojis used in tweets
| Emoji | Count | Emoji Text |
|---|---|---|
| ✊ | 3 | raised_fist |
| 🔮 | 1 | crystal_ball |
| 🥇 | 1 | 1st_place_medal |
| 🇺🇸 | 1 | United_States |
| 🙄 | 1 | face_with_rolling_eyes |
| ✅ | 1 | check_mark_button |
| 💔 | 1 | broken_heart |
| 🤪 | 1 | zany_face |
Emojis groups
| Emoji Group | Count |
|---|---|
| People & Body | 3 |
| Smileys & Emotion | 3 |
| Activities | 2 |
| Flags | 1 |
| Symbols | 1 |