Toxicity Analysis of a Twitter Thread: Analyzing Replies to President Trump’s Tweet about Contracting the Novel Coronavirus
On October 2nd, 2020, U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted that he and the First Lady of the United States (FLOTUS), Melania Trump, both tested positive for COVID-19 (see Figure 1). Within seconds, his tweet received thousands of replies on Twitter. This post will detail our exploratory data analysis of these replies. To collect and analyze…