Wednesday Snapshot:Â The Data Behind Trumpâs Twitter Takeover
Consider that in January 2015, the average number of retweets one of Trumpâs tweets received was 79. But by January 2016, the retweet average had shot up to 2,201. So while @realDonaldTrumpâs capacity to reach people directlyâi.e., his number of followersâhas âonlyâ doubled, the dissemination of his average tweet increased by a factor of 28 over that time period.















