[outofsalt]

The NY Times can generate a time line for slogans on the internet? I doubt they have that capability.
They can go through Sarah Palins trash for weeks but they don’t have the capacity to trace multiple posts through multiple servers.
If they did, then why don’t they have Hillary’s emails?
This was the product of someone in the swamp with a lot of technical wherewithal.

[poconopundit]

I think NYTimes could do this analysis with its own resources as long as it got its hands on the “big data analytics” tools that are routinely available to large companies.

The tweets on Major Twitter site are tracked historically for brand damage by big corporations, so I’m sure that search words like “jobs not mobs” can be analyzed.

They may have cheated a bit on the number of little blue dots for each timeframe, but the graphic seems credible and is a novel way of showing trends in the public domain.

While I am hate New York Times bias, I congratulate them on this graphic.

[Frapster]

The NY Times can generate a time line for slogans on the internet? I doubt they have that capability. They can go through Sarah Palins trash for weeks but they don’t have the capacity to trace multiple posts through multiple servers. If they did, then why don’t they have Hillary’s emails? This was the product of someone in the swamp with a lot of technical wherewithal.

I actually agree with this... i suspect someone else generated the data and they wrote an article about it. I doubt they have the ability to do this directly... who knows for sure.