Sun May 26, 2019, 06:22 PM

Trump Tweets Lose Their Sting: His Interaction Rates Have Plummeted Since He First Took Office

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Trump Tweets Lose Their Sting: The President's Interaction Rates Have Plummeted Since He First Took Office
Audrey McNamara

Trump's Twitter presence is losing its sting. A measure of the president's “interaction rate” shows that the president has been packing less of a punch with each month he's been in office, according to data from CrowdTangle. Trump's interaction rate has fallen from 0.55 percent in November 2016, the month he was elected, to 0.16 percent so far this month. The metric measures retweets and likes per tweet divided by the size of his following. May is set to be the lowest month for Trump's Twitter interaction rate since January 2016. One explanation for the commander in chief's “bad ratio” could be that his inflammatory tweets, which were once novel, have now become customary. Attacking the FBI and accusing government officials of treason are near-daily tweet fodder for the president. Since April 1, Trump has tweeted the phrase “no collusion” 54 times, “no obstruction” 30 times, and “witch hunt” 20 times.

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Trump Tweets Lose Their Sting: His Interaction Rates Have Plummeted Since He First Took Office (Original post)	babylonsister	May 2019	OP
Just like the boy who cried wolf too many times. No one in the normal world even cares what...	SWBTATTReg	May 2019	#1
I heard a comedian say recently....	A HERETIC I AM	May 2019	#2
Well then, I say 'Smart comedian!' It is literally to the point that my eyes literally cloud up...	SWBTATTReg	May 2019	#3
Trump is just a disputatious troll looking for attention	sop	May 2019	#4
he is fucking boring	JI7	May 2019	#5
There's lower interaction rate because all the robot accounts were banned.	icymist	May 2019	#6
From what I've seen, 90% of the pro-Trump bots on Twitter are gone.	CaptainTruth	May 2019	#7

Response to babylonsister (Original post)

Sun May 26, 2019, 06:39 PM

SWBTATTReg (14,800 posts)

1. Just like the boy who cried wolf too many times. No one in the normal world even cares what...

he thinks anymore.

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Response to SWBTATTReg (Reply #1)

Sun May 26, 2019, 06:43 PM

A HERETIC I AM (21,690 posts)

2. I heard a comedian say recently....

(I can't recall who it was, but it was someone who tours and sells out theaters, and this is paraphrasing)

That if they were as redundant with the same shtick as Trump is, they wouldn't be able to book an outhouse inside 3 months.

You can only flog the same, tired bullshit for so long.

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Response to A HERETIC I AM (Reply #2)

Sun May 26, 2019, 06:46 PM

SWBTATTReg (14,800 posts)

3. Well then, I say 'Smart comedian!' It is literally to the point that my eyes literally cloud up...

when someone on DU posts an outrageous tweet from rump...I don't even look at it. Not worth it.

Take care, A Heretic I am!

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Response to babylonsister (Original post)

Sun May 26, 2019, 07:12 PM

sop (4,215 posts)

4. Trump is just a disputatious troll looking for attention

It always seemed members of the media were the only ones who ever really cared about Trump's tweets.

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Sun May 26, 2019, 07:14 PM

JI7 (83,307 posts)

5. he is fucking boring

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Response to babylonsister (Original post)

Sun May 26, 2019, 07:40 PM

icymist (14,756 posts)

6. There's lower interaction rate because all the robot accounts were banned.

He can't even play with himself on Twitter!

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Response to babylonsister (Original post)

Sun May 26, 2019, 07:53 PM

CaptainTruth (3,038 posts)

7. From what I've seen, 90% of the pro-Trump bots on Twitter are gone.

Right after Trump took office, every time he tweeted it seemed like 1000 (probably more) bots immediately replied & retweeted. I saw the same ones over & over, tweet after tweet, often replying in the same order.

Now, they're gone, I haven't seen them for a long time. No doubt this has lowered his interaction rate.

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