How Did We Get Here? The History of Politics Told Through Tweets.

Twitter turns 15: A look back at how the platform changed our lives.

A New York University dropout posted a coded message online fifteen years ago that said, "Just setting up my Twitter." The first tweet ever, just five words from Jack Dorsey, is currently up for sale, with bids as high as $2.5 million.

When Twitter first debuted in 2006, very few people could have imagined how profoundly and permanently it would change the media environment, political dialogue, and society. Twitter supported political movements and societal reckonings hashtag after hashtag, from #MeToo to #Black Lives Matter, by elevating previously marginalized voices.

Miracle on the Hudson's.

Chesley "Sully" Strangers' dramatic landing of US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River is seen as a crucial turning point for the developing social media platform. Janis Drums took a picture of the plane in the ocean on January 15, 2009, while traveling by ferry to New Jersey, and he shared it with his 170 Twitter followers. Many claims that this resulted in Twitter being a new medium for the almost instantaneous transmission of breaking news, permanently altering the media landscape.

Twitter is now owned by Elon Musk — here's a brief history from the app's founding in 2006 to the presentation.

Ten years ago, Twitter's future appeared promising. The business benefited from the influx of capital into the social networking sector, which finally led to an initial public offering (IPO) in 2013 that raised $1.8 billion. The business is once again privately owned. And Elon Musk, the world's richest man and one of the app's most prominent provocateurs, happens to have them in his hands.

How Was The Study Conducted?

We employ more than 800 Twitter API features to determine if an account is a bot or not. The two emotions that characterize the majority of spam or bot accounts are disgust and fury, according to Rajesh. The fundamental technique for determining Tweet speed for an account that is unverified (has an unverified photo, profile, etc.) is the Number of Tweets / Number of Days Since the Account Has been Active.

What Is The Difference Between The Handling Of The Two Networks?

Congress bots hardly ever or never misbehave. Real people are abused by BJP party bots. Congress is home to centralized bots. As a result, other accounts that are dependent on the source or seed account become inactive. The BJP has disseminated bots. Other plants continue to grow even if the seed source or seed bots perish. Office holders in Congress don't follow any of the bot accounts. One or more BJP ministers, including the Prime Minister, follow all of the Pro-BJP Seed accounts. The voice of the average citizen is consistently ignored in all of the impassioned discussions about false news in the nation's present political climate.

The use of Twitter by state leaders and its impact on the public during the COVID-19 pandemic mic.

Abstract The paper explores the frequency, manner, and effects of leaders' use of Twitter during the COVID-19 pandemic. The influence on the public in the context of Twitter is the increase in followers, which denotes the public's growing curiosity about information. 143 state leaders contributed 50,872 tweets, and an original dataset was made that included data on the following growth. The analysis employed ordinary least squares regression models. It was discovered that leaders of 64.8% of UN member states have tweeted about COVID-19. Furthermore, compared to months earlier, there was a notable increase in followers throughout the pandemic. The epidemic has been a hot issue since March.

The Arab Sprint.

Beginning in late 2010, the Middle East and North Africa saw a wave of anti-government and pro-democracy demonstrations that eventually gave rise to the Arab Spring. These mostly unorganized rallies, which demanded radical changes in the field of human rights and, in some cases, revolution, took place in Bahrain, Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria, and Yemen.

Black Lives Matter.

Following George Zimmerman's acquittal in the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, the hashtag "Black Lives Matter" first appeared on a Facebook post. Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi, three Black organizers, are credited with founding the now-universal organization. According to a 2016 Pew Research Centre research, the hashtag occurred on Twitter a total of 5,106 times in the second half of 2013 after its initial online appearance.

Trump's rise and eventual ban from Twittering.

Former President Donald Trump adopted Twitter as his preferred channel very rapidly. He utilized it to engage with his supporters directly more than any other president or presidential candidate before, which helped him win the nomination and pull off an unlikely victory in 2016.

Has Twitter Changed How History Will See This Era?

Despite the fact that tweets on social media sites like Twitter at first seemed both fleeting and insignificant, they now have the ability to shape news cycles, spark actual uprisings, and serve as the early announcements of significant policy changes. They are now acknowledged as an important resource for the archives of political individuals and periods by academics. Professor Carole McGranahan holds doctorates in both history and anthropology and works at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She has recently examined social media usage from the perspective of these fields, paying particular attention to the president's extensive record. What creates history is one of the topics she has written about for a very long time,. What types of experiences and events do we classify as history, and which ones do we not?"

When did historians begin to think that writings on social media should be included in this source material?

Some academics believed that these were crucial from the start. That is applicable to historians, anthropologists, political scientists, and sociologists, among other fields. At first, the general public and possibly some journalists may have thought this was a little more frivolous. Reporters and the majority of academics, however, very quickly realized that something important was going on that required their attention as an element of public culture and political life. Scholars have written on a variety of online chat systems, games with built-in chat, and virtual worlds before the emergence of what we now refer to as social media. Initially, it was MySpace and Facebook; today, it includes Twitter, Instagram, WeChat, WhatsApp, and other similar service.