A small share of users produce the vast majority of content related to national politics — and those with intense views of President Donald Trump are among the most prolific political tweeters, a new study shows.
The Pew Research Center study released last week found that 97% of tweets from U.S. adults that mentioned national politics over the yearlong study period came from just 10% of users.
A total of 2,427 respondents with public Twitter accounts participated in the survey, and collectively, they produced more than 1.1 million tweets from June 10, 2018-June 9, 2019.
“As our previous research found to be true of Twitter content more broadly, this analysis finds that a small share of users produce the vast majority of content related to national politics: 97% of tweets from U.S. adults that mentioned national politics over the study period came from just 10% of users,” Pew stated in the report.
Tweets from users who strongly disapprove of Trump are especially prominent, the study found: The group generates 80% of all tweets from U.S. adults and 72% of tweets mentioning national politics.
Those who strongly approve of Trump — who produce 11% of all tweets from U.S. adults — create 25% of tweets mentioning national politics, the study found.
Taken together, strong disapprovers and strong approvers of Trump generate 97% of all tweets mentioning national politics from U.S. adults on Twitter, the study found.
Pew also found that 69% never tweeted about politics or tweeted about the topic just once. Across all tweets from U.S. adults, only 13% of tweets were focused on national politics.
Trump supporters, as a result, are under-represented on Twitter, Tech Crunch noted.
“Perhaps this is because they’ve flocked to alternate platforms; or because they don’t tweet their views as often in public; or because they violate Twitter’s policies more often, resulting in bans,” Tech Crunch writer Sarah Perez noted.
“Or as is likely, it’s a combination of factors. In any event, the reasoning was beyond the scope of this study.”
The Pew researchers noted the prevalence of tweets mentioning national politics from U.S. adults who strongly disapprove of Trump is a group made up a larger share of Twitter users than of the general public.
The 55% of U.S. adults on Twitter who strongly disapprove of Trump is 7 percentage points higher than the 48% of the general public that holds this view.
And, Pew noted, this strongly disapproving group of Twitter users make up 55% of all U.S. adults on Twitter, but their frequency of tweeting about national politics results in them generating 72% of all the tweets about this topic.
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