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.
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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).
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