![]() ![]() Never had a president used his worldwide social media reach to declare election fraud - an unprecedented situation for news media. MSNBC and CNN together dedicated nearly half of that airtime (10.6 minutes) to Trump’s tweets alleging election fraud. Total airtime MSNBC, CNN and Fox News gave to Trump’s tweets NetworkĮven after Trump’s Twitter account was permanently suspended on January 8, 2021, the three cable networks gave 22.3 minutes of airtime (between January 9 and January 19) to his old tweets. These tweets were on screen for a total of 32 hours. The three major cable networks - MSNBC, Fox News and CNN - broadcast a combined 1,954 of those tweets by showing images of them on screen. As we continue to make sense of the events at the Capitol on January 6, we have to understand how that narrative was spread not only by Trump himself, but also amplified by the major 24-hour news networks.Īccording to the Trump Twitter Archive, in the nearly 13 months between Januand January 19, 2021, Trump tweeted 12,392 times. We gave special attention to tweets during this period that included claims about the integrity of the US presidential election - both his predictions ahead of November 3 and his complaints after Election Day. We set out to study this relationship, focusing on the ways cable news covered Trump’s tweets in his final year of office. Trump’s tweets started to drive the news agenda, and as the ratings appeared to respond positively to the president’s almost-daily stream of consciousness, the mutually reinforcing relationship took hold. Over the years, as Trump shifted from businessman to TV reality star, from candidate to president, a symbiotic relationship between his Twitter feed and television news emerged. Please note that the code must be integrated into the HTML code (not only the text) for WordPress pages and other CMS sites.Rory Smith (research manager at First Draft), Roger Macdonald ( founder of the Internet Archive’s TV News Archive and executive director of the Media-Data Research Consortium) and Kalev Leetaru ( founder of the GDELT Project) contributed to this research Introductionįrom Donald Trump’s first tweet in May 2009 to his last before Twitter suspended him in January 2021, he was a prolific user of the platform, sharing 56,571 posts (including retweets). Our standard is 660 pixels, but you can customize how the statistic is displayed to suit your site by setting the width and the display size. Simply copy the HTML code that is shown for the relevant statistic in order to integrate it. Yes, Statista allows the easy integration of many infographics on other websites. If mainstream news organizations follow Twitter's move and decide against airing the president's grievances, he may continue to struggle dictating the national conversation on his own terms without access to his favorite social media platforms.Ĭan I integrate infographics into my blog or website? It may well be that Trump will return to the piece of technology that made him a star in the first place - television. So, with days of his presidency remaining and his megaphone seemingly silenced, where does Trump go from here? He still has the White House press briefing room at his disposal along with his press team. Trump tweeted 5.7 times per day on average during his first half year in the White House and that had grown to 34.8 times a day on average during the second half of 2020. His most prolific day came on Jwhen he sent 200 tweets or retweets, breaking a previous record of 142 sent on during his impeachment trial on January 23, 2020. ![]() The New York Times reported that he was tagged on Twitter at a rate of 1,000 times a minute that in 2019. The archive shows that Trump tweeted or retweeted approximately 3,500 times in 2018, 7,700 times in 2019 and on over more than 12,000 occasions in 2020. It shows that he tweeted considerably less during his early days in office and his activity ratched up considerably in 2019. His tweets are still freely available to browse at the Trump Twitter Archive which has monitored his Twitter activity for years. Trump relied on the platform to bypass traditional media channels, refute fake news and get his direct views across to hundreds of millions of people. Capitol, Twitter went a step beyond attaching warning labels to President Trump's tweets and the company locked his account permanently. In the wake of last Wednesday's events at the U.S. ![]()
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