The Data Behind Trump's Twitter Takeover

Donald Trump might have claimed recently that he won’t tweet anymore if he becomes president. But seven years of his tweets—and particularly the campaign frenzy of the past several months—nonetheless offer a one-of-a-kind window into Trump’s brain.We took the corpus of Trump tweets since the inception of his @realDonaldTrump account, and examined what’s distinctive about Trump’s Twitter behavior. After some filtering and data loss, this amounted to about 15,000 tweets. Some of our findings—including about some of Trump’s favorite and most distinctive words—appear in these graphics. But we wanted to parse the data further: Just how much attention has Trump received on Twitter as a candidate, we wondered? And what is linguistically distinctive about how he tweets and what he tweets about?