{"id":55841,"date":"2017-07-04T19:31:26","date_gmt":"2017-07-04T19:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=55841"},"modified":"2017-07-04T19:39:06","modified_gmt":"2017-07-04T19:39:06","slug":"retweets-as-quantifiers-of-interest-but-so-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=55841","title":{"rendered":"Retweets as quantifiers of interest, but so what?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; mostly skeptical of quantification of human affects ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TwShiloh<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TwShiloh\/status\/882202353549619200\">retweeted these two NJ Homeland Security tweets<\/a> (<strong>DoubleTweet in the Wild<\/strong>!) with a comment:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Two products released at the same time. Note the retweet\/like rates. ?That&#8217;s what confirmation bias looks like on Twitter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m just now sure what I should deduce from the fact that Anarchy gets so many more RTs than White Supremacy. <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Anarchist Extremists: Antifa &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mX4snJDPCQ\">https:\/\/t.co\/mX4snJDPCQ<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IntelUnclass?src=hash\">#IntelUnclass<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Antifa?src=hash\">#Antifa<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/anarchist?src=hash\">#anarchist<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/extremists?src=hash\">#extremists<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RSLgNb5Nby\">pic.twitter.com\/RSLgNb5Nby<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NJ Homeland Security (@NJOHSP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NJOHSP\/status\/874276356154023937\">June 12, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Snapshot: The Face of White Supremacy in 2017 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kJhpomoP1j\">https:\/\/t.co\/kJhpomoP1j<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IntelUnclass?src=hash\">#IntelUnclass<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/whitesupremacy?src=hash\">#whitesupremacy<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/psmQJyJ8HS\">pic.twitter.com\/psmQJyJ8HS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NJ Ho<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Terror attacks receive five times more media coverage if perpetrator is Muslim, study finds!  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2Dm1DhHoZX\">https:\/\/t.co\/2Dm1DhHoZX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IlhanMN\/status\/882034655423320065\">July 4, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>meland Security (@NJOHSP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NJOHSP\/status\/874266798446792704\">June 12, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Are we more inclined to favor attacks on the left (anarchists) than on the right (supremacists) &#8212; does left violence just seem more noteworthy &#8212; do more people from one side of the divide follow New Jersey Homeland Security, maybe &#8212; or is it all just a little to anecdotal and indeterminate to form any conclusions?<\/p>\n<p>H\/t <strong>JM Berger<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; mostly skeptical of quantification of human affects ] . TwShiloh retweeted these two NJ Homeland Security tweets (DoubleTweet in the Wild!) with a comment: Two products released at the same time. Note the retweet\/like rates. ?That&#8217;s what confirmation bias looks like on Twitter. I&#8217;m just now sure what I should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1104,526,627,1151,897,758,1298,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anarchism","category-charles-cameron","category-doublequotes","category-doubletweets","category-jm-berger-2","category-quant-qualit","category-racism","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55841"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55872,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55841\/revisions\/55872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}