Thread by @conspirator0

Which porridge won today's Twitter duel? (Also, does anyone understand why these trends were labeled "politics"?)

cc: @ZellaQuixote

Thus far, oatmeal is the clear victor with 14087 tweets from 13240 accounts, compared to 10854 tweets/9966 accounts for cream of wheat. Although not mentioned in @nhannahjones's original tweet, grits put in a strong showing as a third-party candidate (4752 tweets/4199 accounts).

We ran VADER sentiment analysis on the porridge tweets. Since the topic is tasty foodstuffs rather than political candidates, it is perhaps not surprising that the ten-minute average sentiment scores for all three cereals are positive throughout.

Finally, here's a network diagram for the porridge tweets showing the interactions between accounts (replies/retweets/quote tweets). @nhannahjones is the main node, as a lot of the tweets are replies to or quote tweets of her original tweet.

Disclaimer: in case it isn't obvious, this thread is just for fun - we don't see anything suspicious about these trends, although it is rather hilarious that Twitter's algorithms classified them as "politics".