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Brandi Buchman @BBuchman_CNS
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Ahead of today’s hearing, Twitter did some analysis on tweets sent by all members of the House and Senate. According to Dorsey, Twitter learned that from July 23-Aug 13 this year, Dems sent 10,272 tweets and Republicans sent 7,981.
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“Democrats on average have more followers per account and have more active followers. As a result, Democratic members in the aggregate receive more impressions or views than Republicans.”
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Despite the higher number of impressions, Dorsey says “after controlling for various factors such as the number of tweets and the number of followers, and normalizing the followers’ activity, we observed that there is no statistically significant difference...
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"...btwn the # of times a tweet by a Dem. is viewed versus a tweet by a Republican. In the aggregate, controlling for the same # of followers, a single tweet by a Repub. will be viewed as many times as a single tweet by a Dem" even after all filtering and algorithms applied."
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