Two people write Trump’s tweets. He writes the angrier ones.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Recently, political and digital analysts began to suspect that Donald Trump’s tweets are authored by two different people: Someone on his campaign staff is tweeting from an iPhone, and the billionaire himself is tweeting from his Samsung Galaxy. Some posts are markedly more hyperbolic and aggressive (“Like the worthless @NYDailyNews, looks like @politico will be going out of business. Bad reporting- no money, no cred!”) than the campaign boilerplate (“Thank you Windham, New Hampshire! #TrumpPence16 #MAGA”). In short, they sound like Trump. When Trump wishes the Olympic team good luck, it comes from an iPhone. When he’s insulting a rival, it usually comes from an Android.

My recent work has concerned text-mining and sentiment analysis, so I wanted to quantify the difference in Trump’s tweets. The data clearly shows that the Android and iPhone tweets are from different people, posting at different times of the day, and using hashtags, links and retweets in distinct ways. What’s more, the Android tweets are angrier and more negative, while the iPhone tweets tend to be benign announcements and pictures. This survey looks at 628 iPhone tweets and 762 Android tweets.

One consideration is what time of day the tweets occur, which we’d expect to be a signature of their author.



Another major difference involves the sharing of links or pictures in tweets. This is a standard practice among social-media professionals of the kind Trump would employ, but it’s uncommon on his own phone.



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https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/08/12/two-people-write-trumps-tweets-he-writes-the-angrier-ones/?utm_term=.40da272418ca&wpisrc=nl_rainbow&wpmm=1

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Very interesting and fits the personas. . . . . nt

[thesquanderer]

2. So Trump operates under numerous names AND numerous people operate under the Trump name (n/t)

[Hortensis]

3. That his own tweets are darker and angrier

is very interesting. If we didn't know a single other thing about him, this would be enough to make me want to keep him well away from the White House.

Although he had to have gotten a lot of input on that dark and angry convention speech, it seemed then and seems now that it is a far truer reflection of the real Trump than the breezy persona he displays most of the time.