Let's take a quick look at two recent Twitter phenomena related to removing Trump from office: the hashtag #TrumpResign and a petition created by @NeedToImpeach (example tweets for each shown below).
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First up, #TrumpResign. This hashtag calling for Trump's resignation has been trending for a little over 24 hours. It has resulted in over a million tweets (including RTs) and shows quite a bit of variety.
The @NeedToImpeach petition trend is rather different. The tweets are largely identical, due to being generated by clicking a button on the petition website. There are also fewer of them (374 original tweets from 372 unique accounts at the time we checked).
Let's take a quick look at some basic "account quality" statistics regarding the accounts involved in each trend. We'll use a sample of accounts posting tweets containing "the" and "this" as a control.
The @NeedToImpeach set has a relatively larger percentage of accounts with default pics, fewer tweets and fewer followers than either the #TrumpResign set or the control groups.
In lieu of offering our own possible interpretations, we're curious what others make of this finding. #FliesLikeBananas
Correction: tagged the wrong account. The references to @NeedToImpeach in this thread should be @Need2Impeach.
