Althouse: "Ocasio-Cortez is the latest Twitter powerhouse."

January 13, 2019

"Ocasio-Cortez is the latest Twitter powerhouse."

Reports Axios, with this chart (click to enlarge and clarify):

46 comments:

tcrosse said...: Twit, twitter, twittest.; 1/13/19, 8:13 AM
Phil 314 said...: A world I do not (gladly) know.; 1/13/19, 8:15 AM
rehajm said...: Those folks in positions #3, 4, 6 and 7 aren't going to put up with that forever. There's a pecking order...; 1/13/19, 8:24 AM
Birkel said...: Yes, but who has the most bots?; 1/13/19, 8:24 AM
Fernandinande said...: The historical precedents are grim.; 1/13/19, 8:25 AM
Tommy Duncan said...: I approve of AOC being the voice of the Democratics.; 1/13/19, 8:31 AM
Ralph L said...: They left off Kim Kardashian at 400 million.; 1/13/19, 8:34 AM
Amexpat said...: The big surprise is that Schumer and Pelosi are on the list. They have no charisma, no populist appeal and nothing interesting to say.; 1/13/19, 8:35 AM
Fernandinande said...: Behold! The top 100 people and brands with the most Twitter followers.
(article and list are undated, for your convenience)

katyperry (106,910,198 "followers")
justinbieber
barackobama
rihanna
taylorswift13
ladygaga (77,584,837 followers)
...etc...; 1/13/19, 8:36 AM
Mark said...: Fernandistein, that's not what they are measuring.

Followers who click 'like' on a profile and are never seen on Twitter again aren't a metric of anything useful in terms of influence.; 1/13/19, 8:40 AM
Ann Althouse said...: Don't mix up the number of followers with what this chart show — likes and retweets.

Also, the chart doesn't purport to cover anything other than political tweeting, so all the pop culture people you're talking about don't matter. If you're interested in news about Twitter, you're already well aware that many pop stars have far more followers than Trump. I wouldn't fault this article for failing to talk about that. It would be boring filler to me.; 1/13/19, 8:41 AM
Fernandinande said...: The big surprise is that Schumer and Pelosi are on the list. They have no charisma, no populist appeal and nothing interesting to say.

Their list is just a bunch of politicians, not the actual twitting powerhouses. Fake news.

"Donald Trump has 55 million followers on Twitter." Namely fewer followers than the songsters 'n' dancers listed above.; 1/13/19, 8:44 AM
Ray - SoCal said...: Twitter controls / manipulates stuff like this, sigh.; 1/13/19, 8:49 AM
Fernandinande said...: Followers who click 'like' on a profile and are never seen on Twitter again aren't a metric of anything useful in terms of influence.

So the likes reported in the article are fake?

Don't mix up the number of followers with what this chart show — likes and retweets.

Why not?

Also, the chart doesn't purport to cover anything other than political tweeting, so all the pop culture people you're talking about don't matter.

Yes, they do matter. They show that people are far more interested in singers - the actual "twitter powerhouses"(*) - than they are in politicians and that the headline to the article was fake.

If you're interested in news about Twitter, you're already well aware that many pop stars have far more followers than Trump.

I'm not interested in twitter, even less so pop singers. I'm interested in fake news, like this article.

I wouldn't fault this article for failing to talk about that. It would be boring filler to me.

I do fault them because the article is fake news without mentioning that obscure fact; they could have clarified by adding one word to their fake headline.

It's kind of like you, AA, often quoting things from the NYT that I think everyone who graduated from high-school already knows about - but apparently you don't.

*I typo'd "poserhouses".; 1/13/19, 8:58 AM
rwnutjob said...: Occasional Cortex
Be afraid
Be very afraid; 1/13/19, 9:01 AM
Fernandinande said...: Also, the chart doesn't purport to cover anything other than political tweeting,

Actually it does, by omission.; 1/13/19, 9:02 AM
Mark said...: "So the likes reported in the article are fake?"
You are conflating two different things. Liking/following a PROFILE and engaging with actual tweets.

Sum totals of followers gauge how many people clicked once on your profile.

This is measuring interaction with actual tweets not just a profile.

If you dont care about Twitter why are you so invested in this post; 1/13/19, 9:27 AM
Wilbur said...: AOC is like a mixture of Thalia Menninger and Zelda. Some of the best and some of the worst from each.

Is she any kind of dreamboat at all?; 1/13/19, 9:40 AM
Amadeus 48 said...: AOC is, like, soooooo cool! I love her!!!! And she's is in Congress! And she was, like, #1 in her class at Brown or something so she must be brilliant!!!

Everyone has a right to free college, and a nice house, and stuff, --and Medicare for everyone!!!--because this is America, and we should give stuff to people who need it! Let that Jeff Bezos and that Warren Buffet and that Bill Gates pay for it--what have they ever done???

You go, AOC. Puerto Rico is the way to go--or Venezuela!!! We can do it better!! Show the world, girl!!!!!!!!; 1/13/19, 9:53 AM
Unknown said...: Two filmmakers from Detroit helped turn Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez into a superstar. Can they find the next wave of socialist candidates and take down the Democratic Party too?

still looking for the PR firm that runs her Twitter - not Hayes and Burton?; 1/13/19, 10:18 AM
Drago said...: Look at all the likes and retweets of the far lefties.

LLR Chuck is clearly not alone!; 1/13/19, 10:19 AM
gilbar said...: Sandy O'Casey is the latest Twitter powerhouse? in Which dreamworld?

Taylor Swift has about Seven TIMES More interactions
https://www.statista.com/statistics/273172/twitter-accounts-with-the-most-followers-worldwide/; 1/13/19, 10:29 AM
gilbar said...: Our Beloved Professor (happy late bDay wishes!) said...
you're already well aware that many pop stars have far more followers than Trump

Sorry, i should have read your (and Ferd's) posts before cluttering up things.
However, of these 'politicians' only Trump has numbers in the pop star range. He IS a pop star; 1/13/19, 10:32 AM
Lucid-Ideas said...: AOC and these other fresh faces are the future of the dems. The old guard knows it, fears it, and there's very little they can do about it.

I'm reminded of that scene in Godfather where the don criticizes sonny after he opens his mouth, "I'm sorry. I have a soft spot for my children and I spoil them as you can see...they speak when they should listen."

The kids are not alright, and they won't shut the hell up either.; 1/13/19, 11:15 AM
Yancey Ward said...: I just loved Ferd's list, though. There are people there who follow hundreds of thousands of other Twitterers. That almost surely means those people have bots and staffs running their accounts- who clicks to follow even 20,000 people all on their own?; 1/13/19, 11:41 AM
Yancey Ward said...: Trump, by the way was 72nd on Ferd's list of followers- Clinton was down there somewhere few spaces below. However, yes- interactions within, lets say, the last year is probably more meaningful indication of how many followers and others are actually reading your tweets.; 1/13/19, 11:44 AM
narciso said...: And Taylor couldn't swing the election for between, one of her poor choices lately.; 1/13/19, 11:47 AM
The Cracker Emcee Refulgent said...: Hardly surprising. Those who freaked out about Trump using Twitter were being disingenuous about the fact that all future Presidents will make use of Twitter or whatever replaces it. And it’s good to have the Loony Left spewing their nonsense out and proud. It has to be seen to be understood.; 1/13/19, 12:02 PM
Yancey Ward said...: From Fern's list, you can construct what I might call the authenticity ratio- followers/100xfollowed. This ranged, on that list, from infinity (top score in authenticity) to around 1/2 or worse.; 1/13/19, 12:19 PM
Yancey Ward said...: For example, Taylor Swift follows no one, as does Adele, Eminem, and the Dalai Lama.; 1/13/19, 12:22 PM
victoria said...: It is because the right wingers are totally obsessed with her. I watched about 5 minutes of the FOX morning show last week, with the lamest anchors in history and they must have mentioned her at least 20 times in the 5 minutes i watched it. I hate to tell you, Ann, the liberals (me included) don't care as much about her as the righties do.
talk about derangement syndrome. AOC derangement syndrome.

Vicki from Pasadena; 1/13/19, 12:47 PM
The Cracker Emcee Refulgent said...: “the liberals (me included) don't care as much about her as the righties do.”

Precisely. She’s eminently mockable. Sheesh, you’d think a Trump-hater would understand what’s going on here.; 1/13/19, 1:06 PM
Roy Lofquist said...: "Yes, I received your letter yesterday, about the time the doorknob broke
When you asked me how I was doing, was that some kind of joke
All these people that you mention, yes, I know them, they're quite lame
I had to rearrange their faces and give them all another name
Right now, I can't read too good, don't send me no more letters no
Not unless you mail them from Desolation Row"; 1/13/19, 1:27 PM
Jim at said...: It is because the right wingers are totally obsessed with her.

Yeah. Those right wingers who booked her on 60 Minutes and The View and all those other shows are the ones who are obsessed with her.

You're not very bright, Vicki.; 1/13/19, 2:28 PM
hstad said...: It's because she's the newest and shiniest photographic bauble out there! But once reality hits, the voters will see what kind of moron (like other politicians) they put into office. Great example is her economic and tax pronouncements. Straight out of the 'Central Planning Bureau' of all socialist countries. Central planning has never worked and never will! Prime example, her tax idea of 60% - 70% top rate. Guess like other 'Elites' she doesn't believe taxpayers will exercise their free will and make adjustments to their lifestyle, revenues and taxes paid. Also, she must've been absent from her economics class the day her professor discussed "Hauser's Law".; 1/13/19, 2:45 PM
victoria said...: Thanks, Jim. I'll store that away in my brain like all the other inane comments you make. They are just following the shiny object, not the brightest thing to do but the most expedient. What is totally rampant is the total obsession that the peeps at Fox News have with AOC. From Sean Hannity (gag me) to Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham, they cannot get enough of her. Mock her as they might, their fear is that she could be just a little correct about the pile of crap that this administration represents.

Vicki from Pasadena; 1/13/19, 3:08 PM
Michael Fitzgerald said...: 15 placements, 2 "republican", 13 Democrat party members and their propagandists.; 1/13/19, 3:32 PM
n.n said...: She's probably a green powerhouse, intermittent, diverging, non-renewable assets, a threat to migrating Tweets, but there is a chance her voice is sustainable, if clearly not clean.; 1/13/19, 5:00 PM
Larry L said...: Yet another good reason to have dumped Twitter.; 1/13/19, 5:45 PM
gilbar said...: Barry O'Bama is FOLLOWING 608,000 people? he's a busy man!; 1/13/19, 6:52 PM
Inga...Allie Oop said...: “I hate to tell you, Ann, the liberals (me included) don't care as much about her as the righties do.
talk about derangement syndrome. AOC derangement syndrome.”

Ain’t that the truth?

Oh and Jim at is an idiot.; 1/13/19, 9:04 PM
Drago said...: Victoria: "What is totally rampant is the total obsession that the peeps at Fox News have with AOC."

More fake news brought to us by the dems disinformation group that ran the Russia-like disinformation ops in the Alabama races.

We will be seeing this more and more as the left continues to flex their disinformation muscles post-hoax-collusion.; 1/13/19, 9:55 PM
narciso said...: Only the bulwinkle is still chasing that squirrel, the fame meets glee segment was amusing.; 1/13/19, 9:57 PM
Critter said...: Reading the graph without knowing the names on the page I would conclude that the top name dominates and has more twitter interactions than the rest of them combined.

Was this graph published to show Trump's awesomeness?; 1/14/19, 1:59 AM
Robert Cook said...: Blogger rwnutjob said...
”Occasional Cortex
Be afraid
Be very afraid”

Can’t be more scary than Trumptweets.; 1/14/19, 5:49 AM
PM said...: She's gonna make Nancy Pelosi nuts before anyone else. Let her buck.; 1/14/19, 1:26 PM