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Tweet Stats
Analysed 42,000 tweets, tweets from the last 36 weeks.
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Tweets Hour of Day (UTC)
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Tweets Day and Hour Heatmap (UTC)
| Top Applications | Count | % |
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12,975 | 30.9% |
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9,407 | 22.4% |
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7,818 | 18.6% |
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5,577 | 13.3% |
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3,190 | 7.6% |
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1,318 | 3.1% |
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1,086 | 2.6% |
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595 | 1.4% |
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16 | 0.0% |
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14 | 0.0% |
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| Top Tweet Types | Count | % |
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| Tweet | 39,429 | 93.9% |
| Reply | 1,976 | 4.7% |
| Retweet | 594 | 1.4% |
| Quote | 14 | 0.0% |
| Top Content Types | Count | % |
|---|---|---|
| URL | 38,530 | 91.7% |
| Video | 13,093 | 31.2% |
| Photo | 1,295 | 3.1% |
| GIF | 14 | 0.0% |
| Top Domains in URLs | Count | % |
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22,817 | 94.8% |
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1,061 | 4.4% |
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139 | 0.6% |
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28 | 0.1% |
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6 | 0.0% |
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4 | 0.0% |
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3 | 0.0% |
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3 | 0.0% |
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2 | 0.0% |
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2 | 0.0% |
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| Most Retweeted Users | Count | % |
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444 | 74.7% |
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87 | 14.6% |
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35 | 5.9% |
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21 | 3.5% |
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5 | 0.8% |
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1 | 0.2% |
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1 | 0.2% |
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| Most Quoted Users | Count | % |
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13 | 92.9% |
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1 | 7.1% |
| Most Replied to Users | Count | % |
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1,967 | 100.0% |
| Top Hashtags | Count | % |
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| #kayburley | 1,849 | 4.4% |
| #covid19 | 611 | 1.5% |
| #daily | 532 | 1.3% |
| #covid | 198 | 0.5% |
| #rigby | 192 | 0.5% |
| #pmqs | 191 | 0.5% |
| #platinumjubilee | 191 | 0.5% |
| #thegreatdebate | 157 | 0.4% |
| #dailyclimateshow | 126 | 0.3% |
| #climatecast | 89 | 0.2% |
| #backstage | 77 | 0.2% |
| #battleforno10 | 74 | 0.2% |
| #stormeunice | 62 | 0.1% |
| #commonground | 56 | 0.1% |
| #analysis | 51 | 0.1% |
| #ridge | 46 | 0.1% |
| #breakfast | 41 | 0.1% |
| #localelections2022 | 41 | 0.1% |
| #partygate | 39 | 0.1% |
| #storycast21 | 30 | 0.1% |
| #️⃣ | 29 | 0.1% |
| #oscars | 29 | 0.1% |
| #weuro2022 | 28 | 0.1% |
| #lionesses | 28 | 0.1% |
| #suegrayreport | 27 | 0.1% |
| #alloutpolitics | 27 | 0.1% |
| #hm70 | 26 | 0.1% |
| #hotspots | 26 | 0.1% |
| #thetake | 25 | 0.1% |
| #outofafghanistan | 24 | 0.1% |
| #climateshow | 24 | 0.1% |
| #eyewitness | 24 | 0.1% |
| #localelections | 24 | 0.1% |
| #weeklyclimateshow | 20 | 0.0% |
| #rigbyinterviews | 18 | 0.0% |
| #euro2022 | 17 | 0.0% |
| #coronavirus | 16 | 0.0% |
| #⃣ | 15 | 0.0% |
| #phillips | 15 | 0.0% |
| #skynewsdebate | 13 | 0.0% |
| #explainer | 13 | 0.0% |
| #cop26 | 12 | 0.0% |
| #beijing2022 | 12 | 0.0% |
| #brits | 12 | 0.0% |
| #servant | 10 | 0.0% |
| #afghanistancrisisappeal | 10 | 0.0% |
| #covid-19 | 9 | 0.0% |
| #stormfranklin | 9 | 0.0% |
| #monkeypox | 8 | 0.0% |
| #costofliving | 8 | 0.0% |
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| Top Words | Count | % |
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| freeview | 6,252 | 14.9% |
| boris | 2,742 | 6.5% |
| russia | 2,560 | 6.1% |
| russian | 2,352 | 5.6% |
| secretary | 1,953 | 4.6% |
| covid | 1,944 | 4.6% |
| government | 1,782 | 4.2% |
| being | 1,597 | 3.8% |
| prime | 1,482 | 3.5% |
| police | 1,344 | 3.2% |
| ukrainian | 1,322 | 3.1% |
| living | 1,144 | 2.7% |
| invasion | 1,103 | 2.6% |
| labour | 1,092 | 2.6% |
| during | 1,088 | 2.6% |
| tory | 928 | 2.2% |
| updates | 905 | 2.2% |
| sunak | 825 | 2.0% |
| conservative | 798 | 1.9% |
| since | 777 | 1.8% |
| before | 765 | 1.8% |
| adding | 760 | 1.8% |
| leadership | 750 | 1.8% |
| downing | 746 | 1.8% |
| rishi | 743 | 1.8% |
| died | 690 | 1.6% |
| tells | 676 | 1.6% |
| according | 660 | 1.6% |
| omicron | 650 | 1.5% |
| killed | 647 | 1.5% |
| military | 639 | 1.5% |
| shadow | 627 | 1.5% |
| chief | 624 | 1.5% |
| foreign | 610 | 1.5% |
| truss | 608 | 1.4% |
| forces | 602 | 1.4% |
| mps | 594 | 1.4% |
| talks | 591 | 1.4% |
| claims | 580 | 1.4% |
| starmer | 575 | 1.4% |
| amid | 574 | 1.4% |
| liz | 570 | 1.4% |
| keir | 562 | 1.3% |
| kyiv | 559 | 1.3% |
| reports | 558 | 1.3% |
| cases | 554 | 1.3% |
| security | 550 | 1.3% |
| lockdown | 549 | 1.3% |
| chancellor | 544 | 1.3% |
| change | 543 | 1.3% |
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| Top Emojis | Count | % |
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| 📺 Television | 7,541 | 18.0% |
| 👇 Backhand Index Pointing Down | 1,838 | 4.4% |
| 👉 Backhand Index Pointing Right | 1,562 | 3.7% |
| 📱 Mobile Phone | 1,059 | 2.5% |
| 🎧 Headphone | 913 | 2.2% |
| 🔴 Red Circle | 439 | 1.0% |
| 🕐 One O’clock | 247 | 0.6% |
| 📈 Chart Increasing | 149 | 0.4% |
| 🕘 Nine O’clock | 124 | 0.3% |
| 📅 Calendar | 121 | 0.3% |
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Tweets
Republican Liz Cheney looks set to lose Wyoming seat to Trump-backed candidate news.sky.com/story/republic…
Republican Liz Cheney looks set to lose Wyoming seat to Trump-backed candidate
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Murder hunt after fatal shooting in Liverpool - suspects use electric bikes to flee news.sky.com/story/murder-h…
Murder hunt after fatal shooting in Liverpool - suspects use electric bikes to flee
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Elon Musk says he is buying Manchester United news.sky.com/story/elon-mus…
Elon Musk says he is buying Manchester United
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Liz Cheney is from one of the most famous Republican families in America. Her voting record on abortion and guns has been exemplary. And yet, she is about to be unseated by voters in her own party.
Her sin? Doggedly opposing Donald Trump trib.al/dCWMrkk
Her sin? Doggedly opposing Donald Trump trib.al/dCWMrkk
Why even lifelong Republican Liz Cheney can't get away with opposing Donald Trump
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Police officers who damage public confidence to face tougher sanctions news.sky.com/story/police-o…
Police officers who damage public confidence to face tougher sanctions
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The EU must end "persistent delays" over the UK's access to the bloc's scientific research programmes after Brexit, the government has demanded as it launched legal action trib.al/KIcMi7D
While naturally most attention with today's jobs figures will focus on the biggest decline in wages in real terms, in other words when inflation is factored in, the numbers also point to a lot of interesting things going on beneath the surface trib.al/oomLApC
Could 'remarkably robust' jobs market pave the way for a fresh interest rate rise?
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Infected blood victims to be offered £100,000 in government compensation news.sky.com/story/infected…
Infected blood victims to be offered 100,000 in government compensation
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The UK could be short of at least 100,000 doses of monkeypox vaccine because government health chiefs grossly underestimated the number of people who need them trib.al/4A1COjA
Monkeypox: UK could be short of at least 100,000 doses of vaccine, experts warn
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Das Boot and Air Force One director Wolfgang Petersen dies aged 81 news.sky.com/story/das-boot…
Das Boot and Air Force One director Wolfgang Petersen dies aged 81
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Sky's Tom Clarke witnesses the drastic measures being taken to save wildlife from low water levels caused by drought trib.al/ceaCQ5A
River fish being moved in struggle to survive low water levels
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Liz Truss has suggested that Labour's energy plan amounts to "sticking plasters" on the issue of soaring household bills trib.al/jJIMfkT
Liz Truss suggests Labour's energy plan is 'sticking plasters' on problem of soaring bills
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Ryanair will add more than 500 flights serving London Stansted during the October half-term, as the airline's boss branded Heathrow "hopeless" after it extended its cap on passenger numbers trib.al/cmwxEAl
Ryanair ups Stansted flights over 'hopeless' Heathrow passenger cap
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A leaked audio recording has revealed Liz Truss said British workers needed "more graft" and lacked the "skill and application" of foreign rivals trib.al/lqCLyPp
Liz Truss said British workers needed 'more graft' and lacked skill of foreign rivals, leaked audio reveals
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Liz Truss tells Nicola Sturgeon to stop 'agitating' for another Scottish independence referendum news.sky.com/story/liz-trus…
Liz Truss tells Nicola Sturgeon to stop 'agitating' for another Scottish independence referendum
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Stars from the world of music and TV have paid tribute to the "terrific" Darius Campbell Danesh following his death at the age of 41 trib.al/py8sTQF
Darius Campbell Danesh: Stars pay tribute to former Pop Idol contestant after death aged 41
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The US first lady, 71, is experiencing "mild symptoms", the White House has said trib.al/vUdRzah
US First Lady Jill Biden tests positive for COVID
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JK Rowling says Joanne Harris has "consistently failed" to defend female writers who disagree "with her personal position on gender identity ideology" trib.al/UnU7ZIk
JK Rowling accuses Chocolat author of failing to support her after death threat
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Brexit: EU must end 'persistent delays' in giving UK access to scientific research programmes, says government news.sky.com/story/brexit-e…
Brexit: EU must end 'persistent delays' in giving UK access to scientific research programmes, says government
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🇺🇸 She is from one of the most famous Republican families in America - her voting record on abortion and guns has been exemplary.
And yet, Liz Cheney is about to be unseated by voters in her own party
#Analysis by @DominicWaghorn 👉 trib.al/PfnGys1
And yet, Liz Cheney is about to be unseated by voters in her own party
#Analysis by @DominicWaghorn 👉 trib.al/PfnGys1
🇺🇸 She is from one of the most famous Republican families in America - her voting record on abortion and guns has been exemplary.
And yet, Liz Cheney is about to be unseated by voters in her own party
#Analysis by @DominicWaghorn 👉 trib.al/PfnGys1
And yet, Liz Cheney is about to be unseated by voters in her own party
#Analysis by @DominicWaghorn 👉 trib.al/PfnGys1
Misconduct investigations into MPs could be thrown into jeopardy after the House of Commons authorities agreed to delete the attendance data of members of parliament, unions have warned trib.al/PfleZo6
Deleting MPs' attendance data may hinder sexual misconduct inquiries, unions warn
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Three stories:
🔴Liz Truss said British workers needed 'more graft', leaked audio reveals trib.al/P7UuxVU
🔴Roads flooded as heavy rain and thunderstorms continue trib.al/8fzNNhB
🔴Stars pay tribute to Darius Campbell Danesh trib.al/YymJsJg
🔴Liz Truss said British workers needed 'more graft', leaked audio reveals trib.al/P7UuxVU
🔴Roads flooded as heavy rain and thunderstorms continue trib.al/8fzNNhB
🔴Stars pay tribute to Darius Campbell Danesh trib.al/YymJsJg
Rishi Sunak MP discusses tax plans and Nicola Sturgeon as he battles to become the next PM 👇
Latest: trib.al/dwvcRFT
Latest: trib.al/dwvcRFT
The RAF has effectively paused making job offers to white male recruits in favour of women and ethnic minorities to meet "impossible" diversity targets, defence sources have claimed trib.al/AJKMXRW
RAF 'pauses job offers for white men' to meet 'impossible' diversity targets
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'Darius will always be our Britney'.
Darius Campbell Danesh made his first bid for fame on the ITV show Popstars in 2001, where he became known for his audition performance of Britney's Baby One More Time.
Latest: trib.al/O88ztC9
Darius Campbell Danesh made his first bid for fame on the ITV show Popstars in 2001, where he became known for his audition performance of Britney's Baby One More Time.
Latest: trib.al/O88ztC9
Sky's science and technology editor @aTomClarke visits the River Mole where the Environment Agency are attempting to save wildlife from low water levels caused by drought.
Read more: trib.al/jZtab9i
Read more: trib.al/jZtab9i
🏠 Is now a good time to buy a house - or is it better to keep renting? trib.al/KhJzjRm
Is now a good time to buy a house - or is it better to keep renting?
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Why even lifelong Republican Liz Cheney can't get away with opposing Donald Trump news.sky.com/story/why-even…
Why even lifelong Republican Liz Cheney can't get away with opposing Donald Trump
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Sky's @AliBunkallSKY, who is in Odesa, says the latest strike in Crimea shows there is at least one group of undercover Ukrainian soldiers working inside the occupied territory.
Latest: trib.al/QTC8as2
Latest: trib.al/QTC8as2
The singer was found dead in his US apartment in Minnesota on 11 August, but his cause of death is not yet known trib.al/KF5chli
Darius Campbell Danesh: Former Pop Idol contestant and theatre star found dead aged 41
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"My life has now become like hell."
A former interpreter for the British Army has spent a year in hiding from the Taliban following the takeover of Afghanistan.
Read more: trib.al/wOXC0qq
A former interpreter for the British Army has spent a year in hiding from the Taliban following the takeover of Afghanistan.
Read more: trib.al/wOXC0qq
Monkeypox: UK could be short of at least 100,000 doses of vaccine, experts warn news.sky.com/story/monkeypo…
Monkeypox: UK could be short of at least 100,000 doses of vaccine, experts warn
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Critics say the job should have gone to a woman and former tennis star Martina Navratilova has labelled the appointment 'ridiculous and absurd' trib.al/3y42tCS
Backlash after a man is appointed Scotland's first 'period dignity officer'
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Elderly man on mobility scooter stabbed to death in west London news.sky.com/story/elderly-…
Sky's Alistair Bunkall, who is in Odesa, says that this shows there is at least one group of undercover Ukrainian soldiers working inside Crimea trib.al/hyQ2MNt
Ukrainian special forces behind attack on ammunition storage site in Crimea, Sky News understands
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Darius Campbell Danesh: Stars pay tribute to former Pop Idol contestant after death aged 41 news.sky.com/story/darius-c…
Darius Campbell Danesh: Stars pay tribute to former Pop Idol contestant after death aged 41
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The former Deloitte UK CEO John Connolly is assembling a bid for Azets backed by TowerBrook Capital Partners and Warburg Pincus, Sky News learns trib.al/Z6YJQcD
Azets founder Connolly lines up backers for 1.5bn accountancy firm bid
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River fish being moved in struggle to survive low water levels news.sky.com/story/river-fi…
River fish being moved in struggle to survive low water levels
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Liz Truss said British workers needed 'more graft' and lacked skill of foreign rivals, leaked audio reveals news.sky.com/story/liz-trus…
Liz Truss said British workers needed 'more graft' and lacked skill of foreign rivals, leaked audio reveals
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The warmer waters in the Gulf of Mexico and western Caribbean sea are charging early season cyclones trib.al/np9ynF4
US hurricane season is starting earlier each season as ocean warms - here's why it's more dangerous
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Kenya's supreme court could be called on to make a ruling - and may decide to order a fresh election to clear up concerns over the extremely tight result trib.al/E5N8K0a
Kenya presidential election: Raila Odinga to use 'all legal options' to challenge result
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Ryan Giggs admits being unfaithful in all past relationships - but denies attacking ex-girlfriend trib.al/AKV9aEb
Ryan Giggs trial: Ex-Manchester United star admits being 'love cheat' who was never faithful in relationships - but denies attacking ex-girlfriend
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