Tag: Social Media

Quote from Hillary Clinton’s Concession Speech was Top Political Tweet of 2016

Posted on December 6, 2016December 9, 2016 by Kelly Dittmar

Women in the World, New York Times – December 6, 2016

Popularity was a contest she really won this year. Clinton can also take satisfaction that a quote from her concession speech and tweeted by her official account turned out to be the most popular political tweet of the year, and the third most popular tweet on any topic of the year, according to data released by Twitter on Tuesday. “To all the little girls watching … never doubt that you are valuable and powerful and deserving of every chance and opportunity in the world,” Clinton said in her speech the day after the election.

Hillary Clinton is Tweeting More than Donald Trump and Attacks Him More Often Than he Does her.

Posted on July 9, 2016July 10, 2016 by Kelly Dittmar

Heather Evans, Kayla Brown, and Tiffany Wimberly, London School of Economics Blog – July 9, 2016

One of the major battlegrounds of the 2016 presidential election is Twitter, with both candidates slugging it out using 140 characters or fewer. Heather Evans, Kayla Brown, and Tiffany Wimberly have been studying both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump’s tweets. They find that, in line with findings from previous studies on how women candidates tweet, in June Clinton out tweeted the Republican nominee, attacked him more often than he did her, and tweeted about political issues far more often.

From Julia Gillard to Hillary Clinton: Online Abuse of Politicians Around the World

Posted on June 26, 2016June 29, 2016 by Kelly Dittmar

Elle Hunt, Nick Evershed and Ri Liu, The Guardian – June 26, 2016

Hillary Clinton received almost twice as much abuse as Bernie Sanders on Twitter this year, according to a wide-ranging analysis provided to the Guardian that compared the treatment of politicians in the US, UK and Australia. The abuse of politicians online, particularly women, is perceived by some to come with the territory. But as high-profile cases flag the urgent need to clean up the web, the scope of the problem is now revealed in greater detail in work by a Brisbane-based social data company, Max Kelsen.

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