Hillary Clinton's Twitter Chart of Doom

[yallerdawg]

Source: Bloomberg, by Adam Tiouririne

Polls had her winning. Prediction models had her winning. Financial markets had her winning. But Twitter had Hillary Clinton losing, with a steady downtrend in sentiment that foreshadowed her stunning defeat to Donald Trump on Election Day.

Of the hundreds of millions of tweets mentioning either candidate’s name, about 20 percent passed through Brandwatch’s filter to be coded as positive or negative, while the rest are marked neutral. The trends in those positive and negative mentions are what corporate clients like Wal-Mart and Dell use to gauge the mood of their customers—and what can help reveal the mood of voters toward Clinton and Trump.

Overall, 17 of the 19 fateful days between the final Oct. 19 debate and the Nov. 8 election were net-positive for Trump on Twitter. For Clinton, only five of those 19 days were net-positive, as last-minute revelations about the investigation into her private e-mail server buffeted the Democrat’s campaign.

Pollsters fear that their historic miss in the 2016 election was because some voters refused to admit their allegiance to Trump. For those voters, Twitter may have served as their confessional.

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-11-16/hillary-clinton-s-twitter-chart-of-doom

[geek tragedy]

1. I have to call bullshit on this.

Were people in rural Wisconsin and Pennsylvania really tweeting up a storm?

[yallerdawg]

3. Just more evidence that the Comey letter seriously impacted the election.

Did they have to tweet? No.

Now throw in Florida, North Carolina, Michigan - Virginia - and Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. No one was tweeting?

[geek tragedy]

4. Comey played some role, but I think even without it she loses Pennsylvania and Florida.

Wisconsin and Michigan were close enough that it might have mattered.

[cigsandcoffee]

17. Yes, probably. Rural people do have computers, and Twitter accounts. n/t

[grossproffit]

2. Twitter: where a lie becomes the truth.

[frazzled]

5. Twitter? Really?

The cesspool of misinformation and bullying? It should delete itself.

[yallerdawg]

6. That's funny.

I'd say misinformation and bullying won Election Day.

Twitter nailed it.

[frazzled]

7. Yes, the Twitterverse elected him

He is the king of Twitter, and it's like an evil virus.

[duffyduff]

9. Nope. CNN and Jeff Zucker are the reasons this shitbag will be in the WH.

NOBODY else is responsible. Zucker committed treason against the United States.

[duffyduff]

8. They refused to admit they are sexist assholes. What else is new? n/t

[AmericanMan1958]

10. Being Trump had Armies of Trolls

Russian, Alt-Right, Wikileaks and GOP all ganged up on Hillary.
It is not surprising there was so much negative.
The last week on twitter it was hard to get past all the trolls and their many accounts.
Their bullying and intimidation shut down all form of intelligent conversation.

[yallerdawg]

11. Taken into account.

A study by Oxford University’s Project on Computational Propaganda found that pro-Trump bots out-tweeted pro-Clinton bots at a 7-to-1 rate during the final presidential debate on Oct. 19. However, bot activity wasn’t enough to move the data in this analysis—Clinton scored +5 on Oct. 19, while Trump scored -7—potentially because those automated tweets are less likely to contain the kind of natural human language that sentiment algorithms like Brandwatch’s are looking for.

All hail data!

'They' know what we're thinking now.

[AmericanMan1958]

13. Damn, that's not good.

So how can we work around this crap?
Not hit likes or comment on post.
Would that help?

[yallerdawg]

15. I don't know.

I can read tweets. But I have never tweeted or joined twitter.

Same with phone 'texting' and Facebook. Never done it.

But I'm still in the herd!

And they're watching.

[TrekLuver]

12. All I will say is that there was an overwhelming amount of Trump followers on social media.

Now I can troll with the best of them but the sheer numbers had me running for the hills.

[AmericanMan1958]

14. Your right.

But it did notice many comments had a different uses of the English language.
Their sentence structure was off.
Think there was a lot of foreign help.

[TrekLuver]

16. Perhaps, and I wouldn't be the least bit surprised....but sadly there was also plenty of homegrown

help as well. There was so much wrong with this election that quite frankly it's overwhelming.