Posted on 12/28/2016 6:28:02 PM PST by bigbob
The Year in News 2016 For the third year running, we’re visualizing The Year in News through data collected from 2 billion tweets throughout the course of 2016. That number alone is a big deal: it’s up 337% from the 459.9 million U.S. tweets we estimated were about major news stories in 2015. This year, one news story dominated them all: the Presidential election. Fully 40% of news tweets were about either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton, the vast majority tweeted during the final 3 months of the election. While D.C. has grown accustomed to a never-ending 2 year campaign, from the public’s point of view, the vast majority of interest and intensity occurs at the end of the campaign, based on mention volume. Because the election was so dominant, we’ve done this year’s report a bit differently than previous years, analyzing the election (including a special section on scandals and controversies), followed by the non-election stories that defined the year.
The graphics dramatically show how Wikileaks/Hacking and Clinton's Email totally dominated the Twitterverse, making the "Trump scandals" that the MSM put so much energy into look insignificant by comparison.
I'll post a small version of this graphic below but take a look at the link to see much better detail.
This is amazing, great find - thank you for sharing.
“Clinton Foundation” wasn’t near the top? MSM did their best to bury that story.
Very interesting metric. Thanks for posting. hooray Echelon Insights.
HOORAY Wikileaks
HOORAY Julian Assange. Thank you, sir.
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