Last night we took a look at the Twitter dataset from suspended Kremlin troll accounts archived & posted by #NBC & look at the frequency of tweets discussing specific US states & display by swing states in 2016 election #Mueller Internet Research Agency nbcnews.com/tech/social-me… 
As you can see there was a pretty clear grouping of purple states. This was an initial quick and dirty analysis and it doesn't take into account that bigger states would of course likely have a higher # of random tweets about them.
So in this next graph we normalized the # of tweets mentioning each state to the states electoral number thus normalizing the tweet frequency to the weight or importance of the state in the 2016 elections. Again a good grouping of purple states. #mueller Internet Research Agency 
So normalizing for electoral importance, New Hampshire got twice as much attention as Texas did by the Russian twitter bots and Iowa got almost 3 times as much attention. I'm sure this had nothing to do with US politics (snark added).
This analysis can be further refined to look at a subset of the sample during the more appropriate last 3 months of the election & initial indications are its even stronger indictment that these Russian Twitter bots main goal was meddling in 2016 Presidential election
So I finally had a chance to read the Mueller indictment and I see now why my data is so relevant to today's events. On page 13 .."they learned they should focus on purple states like Virginia, Colorado and Florida". #mueller 
For those that want to replicate this data. We used following regex 2 eliminate twitter handles that might include a state name: ( |"|')statename
We used the electoral numbers from the 2016 Presidential election. For simplicity we also did not include every state in the graphs.
We used the electoral numbers from the 2016 Presidential election. For simplicity we also did not include every state in the graphs.
Just noticed we made a mistake on the second graph normalized to electoral weight. Pennsylvania should be blue and not purple. At the time it wasn’t considered a swing state.
