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posted by martyb on Sunday August 14 2016, @04:04PM   Printer-friendly
from the CRAZY-idea,-BADLY-done-by-WEAK-people.-So-Sad. dept.

From Electoral-Vote.com:

A theory has been circulating that the Donald Trump tweets that come from an Android device are from the candidate himself, while the ones that come from an iPhone are the work of his staff. David Robinson, a data scientist who works for Stack Overflow, decided to test the theory. His conclusion: It's absolutely correct.

Robinson did some text-mining (using R) to analyze roughly 1,400 tweets from Trump's timeline, and demonstrated conclusively that the iPhone tweets are substantively different than the Android tweets. The former tend to come later at night, and are vastly more likely to incorporate hashtags, images, and links. The latter tend to come in the morning, and are much more likely to be copied and pasted from other people's tweets. In terms of word choice, the iPhone tweets tend to be more neutral, with their three most-used phrases being "join," "#trump2016," and "#makeamericagreatagain." The Android tweets tend to be more emotionally charged, with their three most-used phrases being "badly," "crazy," and "weak."


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 14 2016, @07:23PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 14 2016, @07:23PM (#387938)

    The advertisers like to know it. As there is some % where iphone users spend more money than android users. So depending on how much the ad is worth you can better target your audience. Profiling, it works.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 14 2016, @07:41PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 14 2016, @07:41PM (#387948)

    Profiling, it works.

    It works so well Trump wants to use it as an immigration policy.

    • (Score: 2) by MostCynical on Sunday August 14 2016, @10:27PM

      by MostCynical (2589) on Sunday August 14 2016, @10:27PM (#387993) Journal

      He also has a bridge to sell to voters..

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      • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday August 15 2016, @03:22PM

        by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Monday August 15 2016, @03:22PM (#388208) Journal

        Um, excuse me? That would be a Wall. Not a Bridge. And he wants to 'sell' it to whoever the wall would enclose. Like a 'walled garden'. Like the walled garden of North Korea.

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        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 15 2016, @03:56PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 15 2016, @03:56PM (#388226)

          The Democratic People's Republic of Korea is also the most democratic nation in the world (see? its right there in the name! at least thats the same argument by which "socialist" countries get called socialist - its in their name, so they must be a perfect example of socialism!), so naturally we want to emulate them. If we don't then we're basically giving up on the idea of democracy.