But absent Trump’s return to his trusty Android phone, machine learning can give the public its best chance of figuring out when really is the real Donald Trump. Some of the most important words of 2016-“Ted Cruz”, “Bernie”, “Crooked Hillary”-are unlikely to remain helpful in classifying the president’s future tweets. I’ll be continuing to improve the bot, and welcome suggestions. If you’re into this kind of stuff, take a look at the classifier code here. “ ”: (Trump/staff ratio = 8 : 1) The president is also far more likely to include extra spaces in his tweets.(Trump/staff ratio = 3:1) Trump’s preferred cable channel gets a bump in his own tweets.“Media”: (Trump/staff ratio = 5 : 1) With a president who is obsessed with news coverage and the “dishonest media,” does this surprise you?.“#”: (Trump/staff ratio = 1 : 5) Staffer Trump uses hashtags all the time, something Android Trump doesn’t bother with much.Over nearly twelve years, Trump tweeted around 57,000. (Trump/staff ratio = 14 : 1) Trump was 14 times more likely than a staffer to mention his own Twitter handle, probably because he frequently quotes tweets about himself. Donald Trumps use of social media attracted attention worldwide since he joined Twitter in May 2009.By comparing new tweets to the president’s massive Twitter record, the bot is able to tell with reasonable certainty whether Trump is behind the keyboard, even if he’s chucked Android for Apple. It’s a Twitter bot that uses machine learning and natural language processing to estimate the likelihood Trump wrote a tweet himself. The network, born out of Trump being banned from Twitter, Facebook and YouTube due to the risk of the former president inciting violence, was due to launch on 21 February, five months after Trump. Trump now appears to post mostly from an iPhone, if he still tweets at all.īut is on the case. Trump tweets were quantifiably different than staffer tweets, angrier and posted later at night (not to mention more poorly spelled).īut in recent weeks, the Android tweets have slowed to a trickle, an indication that the White House might finally be taking the security risks posed by the president’s Twitter account seriously. This was great for data-minded journalists like myself, because we could infer when Trump himself was tweeting, tapping away at his Samsung Galaxy.

Guess which kind of phone Trump uses personally? rants, on the other hand, were generally sent from an Android.

Folks quickly noticed that his boring tweets-event announcements, press releases on polls-were usually sent from an iPhone, probably a staffer’s. 'Twitter is a wonderful thing for me, because I get the word out I might not be here talking to you.

For at least two years, an open secret lurked in the the metadata behind President Donald Trump’s personal Twitter account. In 2017, he said he wouldnt have become president without it.

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