Trump’s nice tweets come from Apple iPhone, the not-so-nice ones come from Android phone
“When Trump wishes the Olympic team good luck, he’s tweeting from his iPhone. When he’s insulting a rival, he’s usually tweeting from an Android,” David Robinson writes for Variance Explained. “Is this an artifact showing which tweets are Trump’s own and which are by some handler?”
“Others have explored Trump’s timeline and noticed this tends to hold up- and Trump himself does indeed tweet from a Samsung Galaxy. But how could we examine it quantitatively?” Robinson writes. “I’ve been writing about text mining and sentiment analysis recently, particularly during my development of the tidytext R package with Julia Silge, and this is a great opportunity to apply it again.”
“My analysis, shown below, concludes that the Android and iPhone tweets are clearly from different people, posting during different times of day and using hashtags, links, and retweets in distinct ways,” Robinson writes. “What’s more, we can see that the Android tweets are angrier and more negative, while the iPhone tweets tend to be benign announcements and pictures. Overall I’d agree with @tvaziri’s analysis [below]: this lets us tell the difference between the campaign’s tweets (iPhone) and Trump’s own (Android).”
Every non-hyperbolic tweet is from iPhone (his staff).
Read more and see tons of data analysis in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Donald TrumpThe extensive data analysis is interesting, but unnecessary. It’s simple: iPhone users are nicer people. Anyone who’d reward thieves by buying and using an iPhone knockoff obviously doesn’t really care about protecting American intellectual property or law and order, now, do they? Not to mention not caring about their own privacy or data security.
