Social Media Analysis: National Leader Tags on Twitter
With the help of R and shiny application, we are able to develop a dynamic dashboard displaying the result of our social media analysis of twitter tags of the national leaders. The seven national leaders being analyzed are American President Joe Biden, Supreme Leader of North Korea Kim Jong-un, President of PRC Xi Jinping, Chancellor of Germany Angel Merkel, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Boris Johnson, Russia’s president Vladimir Putin and French president Emmanuel Macron. By selecting the hashtags of their names in the left bar, the board can show the Twitter data of the hashtag. And we mainly focus on the English language users, analyzing the Twitter post under the hashtag in English language.
Here are the seven main parts of our analysis and some interesting findings from the results.
Total Posts
This part displays the total number of posts under the hashtag of each national leaders from May 6th to 12th.
We could see clearly, Twitter users in English most care about Joe Biden and Boris Johnson, who are the leaders of the two English speaking countries among the seven countries we analyze.
Proportion of Original Tweets
records the original tweets rather than retweets under the hashtags.
The Highest Retweet Count
shows the times of retweets that the most widely-spread tweets get.
