One Wordcloud A Day

Today George Zimmarman is trending because he announced that he will auction off the gun he used to kill Treyvon Martin. It's pretty sad. Anyway I decided to use this search term for getting the wordcloud because generally I don't have negative keywords on this blog. I was also curious to know whether people on Twitter will support him or oppose him.  As it's apparent from the sentiment graph, a majority of Twitter users disliked the news. The sentiment is overly negative with only about 10% people saying positive things about it. In the wordcloud, the main discussion topic is "gun" and words around it. This is not surprising because George Zimmarman usually is not trending. So this bunch of tweets are all about the auctioning of the gun. I think a lot of people also were a bit outraged because his name is "trending" on Twitter. But by showing this outrage probably they added to the trending topic! For example, this tweet received a lot of...

Donald Trump is trending for all the wrong reasons. Today he said that Americans should not allow Muslims to enter the country! That's outright demented. But anyway, I thought it would be an interesting exercise to understand what people on Twitter are saying about him. So I downloaded close to 200K tweets and created this wordcloud. Of course, all the talk is around his comments against Muslims. But it looks to me that this is more of chatter from news outlets retweeted by people. Later you will see that the sentiment around Trump is still not as negative as you would expect. Also the derogatory words "Hitler", "dick", and "racist" are quite infrequent.   Here is sentiment graph for Trump. It's surprisingly positive. What's going on Twitter?