It’s slow progress as his election pledges
landmark Donald Trump has been an avid Twitter user as President – and the tweets are revealing.
The President has sent 447 tweets to his 28m followers from @realDonaldTrump since January 20, receiving an average of more than 99,000 favourites per tweet. The tweets sent between the inauguration and April 25 were retweeted a total of 9,461,563 times – averaging just over 21,000 retweets per tweet.
Commentators have long noted that Mr Trump is most prolific in the morning, often while watching the Fox News Channel morning talk show, Fox And Friends.
The busiest hours on the @ realDonaldTrump timeline are between 6am and 9am – the exact hours during which Fox And Friends airs. The show’s official Twitter account, @ foxandfriends, was the account most retweeted by President Trump in his first 100 days.
Another clear trend visible from the account’s activity was a marked difference in tone depending on whether the tweet was sent from an iPhone or an Android handset.
It is widely believed that tweets showing from an Android phone were sent by the President himself, while those from an iPhone were sent by members of his team.
The last tweet from an Android device was sent on March 25, but an analysis of all tweets until that point shows 50% more exclamation marks in tweets from Android devices and more than three times as many mentions of “fake news”.
“Great” is the most popular single word used in his tweets, featuring 80 times.