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Simon Elvery

simon@bne.social

Simon Elvery

simon@bne.social

Telling stories for ABC News  | Organising Hacks/Hackers Brisbane  | Reuter's Institute for the Study of Journalism Fellow at Oxford

2022-11-29 03:29:20 2022-11-29 03:29:19 2022-11-28 21:38:12 1103569

Simon Elvery

2 years ago •

Simon Elvery
2 years ago •

Content warning: twitter & us politics, but for the dataviz

Look at this absolutely wild chart from the Washington Post. Putting time on the y-axis 🤯 #dataviz #datavis

Republican lawmakers gained Twitter followers after Musk acquisition.

A line chart with time on the y-axis and change in following on the x-axis. Designed to be read from the top. It shows a stark shift in follower numbers for politicians from October 28th when Musk bought Twitter and that Republicans appear to be gaining followers where Democrats are losing them, on average.

Republicans gained an average of 8,000 followers and Democrats lost 4,000 followers in the first weeks of Elon Musk’s leadership of Twitter, Gerrit De Vynck, Jeremy B. Merrill and Luis Melgar report. Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) each gained more than 300,000 followers, while Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D-Calif.) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who caucuses with Democrats, lost about 100,000 Twitter followers.

#dataviz #datavis

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