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Tweets
406K
Following
27
Followers
6,245,473
Likes
12
Listed
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Tweet Stats
Analysed 42,000 tweets, tweets from the last 99 weeks.
Tweets Day of Week (+0:00h)
Tweets Hour of Day (+0:00h)
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Tweets Day and Hour Heatmap (+0:00h)
| Top Applications | Count | % |
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13,640 | 32.5% |
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12,990 | 30.9% |
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3,793 | 9.0% |
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2,677 | 6.4% |
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2,342 | 5.6% |
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2,064 | 4.9% |
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1,843 | 4.4% |
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1,647 | 3.9% |
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358 | 0.9% |
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244 | 0.6% |
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147 | 0.4% |
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120 | 0.3% |
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109 | 0.3% |
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20 | 0.0% |
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3 | 0.0% |
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3 | 0.0% |
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| Top Tweet Types | Count | % |
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| Tweet | 37,698 | 89.8% |
| Retweet | 3,352 | 8.0% |
| Reply | 908 | 2.2% |
| Quote | 114 | 0.3% |
| Top Content Types | Count | % |
|---|---|---|
| URL | 38,082 | 90.7% |
| Video | 9,416 | 22.4% |
| Photo | 1,203 | 2.9% |
| GIF | 34 | 0.1% |
| Top Domains in URLs | Count | % |
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18,107 | 97.5% |
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169 | 0.9% |
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151 | 0.8% |
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61 | 0.3% |
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24 | 0.1% |
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23 | 0.1% |
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17 | 0.1% |
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6 | 0.0% |
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3 | 0.0% |
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3 | 0.0% |
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@SkyNewsPolitics - Sky News Politics
@SkyNewsBreak - Sky News Breaking
@ThePledge - The Pledge
@SkyNewsWeather - Sky News Weather
@SkyOceanRescue - Sky Ocean Rescue
@Stone_SkyNews - Mark Stone
@KayBurley - Kay Burley
@SophyRidgeSky - Sophy Ridge
@BethRigby - Beth Rigby
@faisalislam - Faisal Islam
@skysarahjane - Sarah-Jane Mee
@SkyNewsBiz - Sky News Business
@tamcohen - Tamara Cohen
@lewis_goodall - Lewis Goodall
@EdConwaySky - Ed Conway
@gemmapeplow - Gemma Peplow
@AliBunkallSKY - Alistair Bunkall
@SkyRhiannon - Rhiannon Mills
@EmmsBennett - Emma Bennett
@SkyData - Sky Data
@breeallegretti - Aubrey Allegretti
@skynewsniall - Niall Paterson
@CordeliaSkyNews - Cordelia Lynch
@MarkKleinmanSky - Mark Kleinman
@SkySportsNews - Sky Sports News
@robpowellnews - Rob Powell
@SkySportsRugby - Sky Sports Rugby
@RaynerSkyNews - Tom Rayner
@SkyZeroOfficial - Sky Zero
@skydavidblevins - David Blevins
@SkyNewsNaz - Nazaneen Ghaffar
@KateEMcCann - Kate McCann
@SkyNewsThomas - Thomas Moore
@LivMoloney - Liv Moloney
@SkyFootball - Sky Sports Football
@SkyEnda - enda brady
@skynewssarah - Sarah Hewson
@rowlsmanthorpe - Rowland Manthorpe
@sparkomat - John Sparks
@JasonFarrellSky - Jason Farrell
@WalkerSkyNews - Amanda Walker
@SkySportsPL - Sky Sports Premier League
@SiobhanRobbins - Siobhan Robbins Sky
@BeckyJohnsonSky - Becky Johnson
@SkyIanKingLive - Ian King Live Team
@SkyNewsIsabel - Isabel Webster
@beccactaylor - Becca Taylor
@chesh - Tom Cheshire
@RTS_media - Royal Television Society
@IanAustinMP - Ian Austin
@edmnangagwa - President of Zimbabwe
@NorfolkPolice - Norfolk Police
@UKSupremeCourt - UK Supreme Court
@PennyMordaunt - Penny Mordaunt MP
@Jeremy_Hunt - Jeremy Hunt
@SkyNewsWW1 - Sky News WW1
@KensingtonRoyal - Kensington Palace
@Alan_McGuinness - Alan McGuinness
@NHC_Atlantic - National Hurricane Center
@skynewsmichelle - Michelle Clifford| Most Replied to Users | Count | % |
|---|---|---|
 @SkyNews - Sky News
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883 | 97.9% |
 @dazzler_1972 - Darryl
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3 | 0.3% |
 @jayceb19 - Jane Brook
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3 | 0.3% |
 @RidgeOnSunday - Ridge on Sunday
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2 | 0.2% |
 @steelershockey - Sheffield Steelers
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2 | 0.2% |
 @kimbaileyracing - Kim Bailey
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2 | 0.2% |
 @SkyNewsTech - Sky News Tech
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1 | 0.1% |
 @lisa_linley - lisa dodd
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1 | 0.1% |
 @adamboultonSKY - Adam Boulton
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1 | 0.1% |
 @GatorLenny - 2004 never happened
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1 | 0.1% |
 @TonyShe73632450 - Tony Shepherd
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1 | 0.1% |
 @nonameslob_ - Rachel Louise Murphy
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1 | 0.1% |
 @KarenAttiah - Karen Attiah
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1 | 0.1% |
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| Top Words | Count | % |
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| brexit | 2,769 | 6.6% |
| police | 1,932 | 4.6% |
| government | 1,544 | 3.7% |
| theresa | 1,451 | 3.5% |
| trump | 1,355 | 3.2% |
| being | 1,255 | 3.0% |
| during | 1,041 | 2.5% |
| coronavirus | 1,027 | 2.4% |
| secretary | 1,011 | 2.4% |
| labour | 967 | 2.3% |
| mps | 924 | 2.2% |
| prime | 816 | 1.9% |
| lockdown | 806 | 1.9% |
| donald | 773 | 1.8% |
| vote | 770 | 1.8% |
| died | 769 | 1.8% |
| killed | 678 | 1.6% |
| tells | 642 | 1.5% |
| updates | 572 | 1.4% |
| before | 566 | 1.3% |
| protests | 526 | 1.3% |
| chief | 510 | 1.2% |
| britain | 507 | 1.2% |
| boris | 491 | 1.2% |
| talks | 469 | 1.1% |
| jeremy | 467 | 1.1% |
| corbyn | 450 | 1.1% |
| change | 445 | 1.1% |
| pandemic | 443 | 1.1% |
| since | 430 | 1.0% |
| arrested | 419 | 1.0% |
| amid | 408 | 1.0% |
| political | 398 | 0.9% |
| accused | 378 | 0.9% |
| according | 370 | 0.9% |
| missing | 369 | 0.9% |
| claims | 367 | 0.9% |
| because | 366 | 0.9% |
| tory | 363 | 0.9% |
| thousands | 361 | 0.9% |
| analysis | 354 | 0.8% |
| lives | 353 | 0.8% |
| plans | 348 | 0.8% |
| jailed | 343 | 0.8% |
| security | 341 | 0.8% |
| border | 333 | 0.8% |
| despite | 331 | 0.8% |
| parliament | 331 | 0.8% |
| rules | 323 | 0.8% |
| officer | 321 | 0.8% |
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| Top Emojis | Count | % |
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| 🔴 Red Circle | 411 | 1.0% |
| 👇 Backhand Index Pointing Down | 403 | 1.0% |
| 👉 Backhand Index Pointing Right | 402 | 1.0% |
| 🎧 Headphone | 360 | 0.9% |
| 📱 Mobile Phone | 208 | 0.5% |
| 📺 Television | 199 | 0.5% |
| ⚡ High Voltage Sign | 82 | 0.2% |
| ❄ Snowflake | 81 | 0.2% |
| 💷 Pound Banknote | 59 | 0.1% |
| 🚀 Rocket | 47 | 0.1% |
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Tweets
On the latest #Ridge podcast, @SophyRidgeSky talks to @Michaelgove about scrapping the government’s 'Stay At Home' message.
Plus, ex-MI6 chief Sir Richard Dearlove on the need for a “reset” with China.

🎧 Listen in full 👉 podfollow.com/sophyridge
Plus, ex-MI6 chief Sir Richard Dearlove on the need for a “reset” with China.

🎧 Listen in full 👉 podfollow.com/sophyridge
On the latest #Ridge podcast, @SophyRidgeSky talks to @Michaelgove about scrapping the government’s 'Stay At Home' message.
Plus, ex-MI6 chief Sir Richard Dearlove on the need for a “reset” with China.

🎧 Listen in full 👉 podfollow.com/sophyridge
Plus, ex-MI6 chief Sir Richard Dearlove on the need for a “reset” with China.

🎧 Listen in full 👉 podfollow.com/sophyridge
On the latest #Daily podcast with @DermotMurnaghan, we are joined by Africa's first elected female head of state, who is working with the World Health Organisation to evaluate the global response to the #coronavirus pandemic.
Click below 👇 to listen 🎧 in full
Click below 👇 to listen 🎧 in full
Coronavirus: City calls for new body to clear £100bn crisis debt burden news.sky.com/story/coronavi…
Coronavirus: City calls for new body to clear 100bn crisis debt burden
news.sky.com
Michelin starred chef Tom Kerridge has criticised dozens of people who failed to turn up at his restaurant this weekend, claiming their "selfish" behaviour is putting hospitality jobs at risk trib.al/q8zqL2e
San Diego: Several sailors injured in explosion on US military ship Bonhomme Richard news.sky.com/story/san-dieg…
San Diego: Several sailors injured in explosion on US military ship Bonhomme Richard
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Primark will not take advantage of a £30m bonus offered by the government for bringing its staff back from furlough, the retailer has announced trib.al/FkDZpKl
On the latest #Ridge podcast, @SophyRidgeSky talks to @Michaelgove about scrapping the government’s 'Stay At Home' message.
Plus, ex-MI6 chief Sir Richard Dearlove on the need for a “reset” with China.

🎧 Listen in full 👉 podfollow.com/sophyridge
Plus, ex-MI6 chief Sir Richard Dearlove on the need for a “reset” with China.

🎧 Listen in full 👉 podfollow.com/sophyridge
On the latest #Ridge podcast, @SophyRidgeSky talks to @Michaelgove about scrapping the government’s 'Stay At Home' message.
Plus, ex-MI6 chief Sir Richard Dearlove on the need for a “reset” with China.

🎧 Listen in full 👉 podfollow.com/sophyridge
Plus, ex-MI6 chief Sir Richard Dearlove on the need for a “reset” with China.

🎧 Listen in full 👉 podfollow.com/sophyridge
"I'm sure he's not too happy about that fashion statement, but it's a necessary thing to do these days"
Dr Lisa Palmer, a psychotherapist who knows Donald Trump, comments on the President wearing a mask in public for the first time
Read more: trib.al/blLNuNZ
Dr Lisa Palmer, a psychotherapist who knows Donald Trump, comments on the President wearing a mask in public for the first time
Read more: trib.al/blLNuNZ
A doctor says he has a "renewed sense of respect" for his colleagues in intensive care after spending two weeks photographing them at the height of the #coronavirus crisis trib.al/QFlwU26
Coronavirus: Primark refuses £30m government bonus for bringing back furloughed workers news.sky.com/story/coronavi…
Coronavirus: Primark refuses 30m government bonus for bringing back furloughed workers
news.sky.com
Iain Duncan Smith has said the UK should learn from what happened in the 1930s when it comes to present day China - and the government should review its contracts in the strategic nuclear sector and other areas of national security trib.al/kJ0Pqqh
A Scottish pilot who was on life support for more than two months in Vietnam is returning home trib.al/3tulFdu
Hundreds of thousands of Hongkongers cast ballots in primaries held by the city's pro-democracy parties in defiance of the new security law trib.al/pnHEoij
Coronavirus: Tom Kerridge says 'no-show' restaurant customers are putting jobs at risk after lockdown news.sky.com/story/coronavi…
Coronavirus: Tom Kerridge says 'no-show' restaurant customers are putting jobs at risk after lockdown
news.sky.com
Take a look at the stories making a splash in Sunday's national newspapers trib.al/VcCjqP1
More employees should return to work rather than stay at home to ensure "the economic engines of this country are fired up again", Michael Gove has told Sky News trib.al/BAB8p64
A British student who travelled to Syria to join the Islamic State group has been killed in the prison where he was being held
Ishak Mostefaoui was interviewed by Sky News in November last year having been held in the prison since March 2019
Read more: trib.al/cIu3uKw pic.twitter.com/2U0Mp9C8ft
Ishak Mostefaoui was interviewed by Sky News in November last year having been held in the prison since March 2019
Read more: trib.al/cIu3uKw pic.twitter.com/2U0Mp9C8ft
A British student who travelled to Syria to join the Islamic State group has been killed in the prison where he was being held
Ishak Mostefaoui was interviewed by Sky News in November last year having been held in the prison since March 2019
Read more: trib.al/cIu3uKw
Ishak Mostefaoui was interviewed by Sky News in November last year having been held in the prison since March 2019
Read more: trib.al/cIu3uKw
A gorilla at a zoo in Florida has been tested for COVID-19 after he was taken to an animal hospital to receive treatment following a fight with his younger brother trib.al/J2cwrYu
Disney World Florida has reopened after four months of lockdown, despite a recent surge in #COVID19 cases in the US state trib.al/F1ELOnw
A former backer of TGI Friday's is in detailed talks to buy the stricken restaurant operator behind the Cafe Rouge and Las Iguanas chains trib.al/fG8wwZY
Iain Duncan Smith: UK needs to urgently review nuclear contracts with China news.sky.com/story/iain-dun…
Hongkongers defy security law to vote in democracy party primaries news.sky.com/story/hongkong…
Speaking to @RidgeonSunday, Sir Richard Dearlove, who led MI6 from 1999 to 2004, said the firm was not an "ordinary international telecommunications company" but "an intimate part of the Chinese state" trib.al/ViEiaSy
Coronavirus: Shango the gorilla given COVID-19 test after fever news.sky.com/story/coronavi…
Doctors are warning that patients are being neglected and their illnesses worsening after a "catastrophic" drop in surgeries and appointments due to the #coronavirus pandemic trib.al/j4I3IEE
Human trials are under way of a potential vaccine for #COVID19 being developed by scientists at the University of Oxford trib.al/DzhqwKL
A British student who travelled to Syria to join the Islamic State (IS) group has been killed in the prison where he was being held trib.al/7ysq9GO
On the latest #Daily podcast with @DermotMurnaghan, we speak to former President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.
She explains that a vaccine to combat #COVID19 should be seen as a "global good" that is available to all countries.
🎧 Listen in full 👉 podfollow.com/skynewsdaily
She explains that a vaccine to combat #COVID19 should be seen as a "global good" that is available to all countries.
🎧 Listen in full 👉 podfollow.com/skynewsdaily
He became leader during lockdown and Sir Keir Starmer's poll ratings have risen significantly in the 100 days since. But can that honeymoon last? trib.al/mggGTVS
British holidaymakers travelling to Ireland will continue to be subject to quarantine as the Dublin government seeks to avoid a second spike of the #coronavirus trib.al/i7f7CBn
While using coverings in enclosed spaces was being encouraged by the government in response to the #coronavirus pandemic, Michael Gove said it was important "to treat people with respect" trib.al/KhniwQi
📽 On the #Backstage podcast this week, @wongie1, @ScoopDoggSky and @SkyKatieSpencer are determined to get through the new series from the creators of The Wire, #ThePlotAgainstAmerica
🎧 Listen to the podcast here: podfollow.com/backstagepod
🎧 Listen to the podcast here: podfollow.com/backstagepod
Backstage
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"Working as a journalist in Russia has never been easy, but there is a sense now among colleagues that the outlook is darkening"
Moscow correspondent @DiMagnaySky says the charges against Ivan Safronov are a brutal jolt of reality for media in Russia trib.al/KADy7kc
Moscow correspondent @DiMagnaySky says the charges against Ivan Safronov are a brutal jolt of reality for media in Russia trib.al/KADy7kc
A British student who travelled to Syria to join the Islamic State (IS) group has been killed in the prison where he was being held trib.al/Xojmqqg
British holidaymakers travelling to Ireland will continue to be subject to quarantine as the Dublin government seeks to avoid a second spike of the #coronavirus trib.al/eNi371u
"We should recognise that we've been duped"
Chair of the Defence Select Committee @Tobias_Ellwood says "it's about time now that we stop rolling over" to China, adding "it's time that we were stronger"
Read more here: trib.al/r7XcIpR
Chair of the Defence Select Committee @Tobias_Ellwood says "it's about time now that we stop rolling over" to China, adding "it's time that we were stronger"
Read more here: trib.al/r7XcIpR
Chair of the Defence Select Committee @Tobias_Ellwood says the UK is not assertive enough with China
Read more here: trib.al/r7XcIpR
Read more here: trib.al/r7XcIpR
He became leader during lockdown and Sir Keir Starmer's poll ratings have risen significantly in the 100 days since. But can that honeymoon last? trib.al/v94xkBd
Coronavirus: Ireland quarantine remains in force for British holidaymakers news.sky.com/story/coronavi…
Coronavirus: Ireland quarantine remains in force for British holidaymakers
news.sky.com
Chair of the Defence Select Committee @Tobias_Ellwood says he is "anticipating a big change this week" in the government's position on Huawei's involvement in 5G networks
Read more here: trib.al/r7XcIpR
Read more here: trib.al/r7XcIpR
Ivan Safronov: Journalist's treason charges are brutal reality jolt for media in Russia news.sky.com/story/ivan-saf…
Ivan Safronov: Journalist's treason charges are brutal reality jolt for media in Russia
news.sky.com
Sky News speaks to Mike Skinner as The Streets release their first album, a collaborations mixtape, in nine years trib.al/jyHKA03
On the latest #Ridge podcast, @SophyRidgeSky talks to @Michaelgove about scrapping the government’s 'Stay At Home' message.
Plus, ex-MI6 chief Sir Richard Dearlove on the need for a “reset” with China.

🎧 Listen in full 👉 podfollow.com/sophyridge
Plus, ex-MI6 chief Sir Richard Dearlove on the need for a “reset” with China.

🎧 Listen in full 👉 podfollow.com/sophyridge
On the latest #Ridge podcast, @SophyRidgeSky talks to @Michaelgove about scrapping the government’s 'Stay At Home' message.
Plus, ex-MI6 chief Sir Richard Dearlove on the need for a “reset” with China.

🎧 Listen in full 👉 podfollow.com/sophyridge
Plus, ex-MI6 chief Sir Richard Dearlove on the need for a “reset” with China.

🎧 Listen in full 👉 podfollow.com/sophyridge
On the latest #Daily podcast with @DermotMurnaghan, we speak to former President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.
She explains that a vaccine to combat #COVID19 should be seen as a "global good" that is available to all countries.
🎧 Listen in full 👉 podfollow.com/skynewsdaily
She explains that a vaccine to combat #COVID19 should be seen as a "global good" that is available to all countries.
🎧 Listen in full 👉 podfollow.com/skynewsdaily
While using coverings in enclosed spaces was being encouraged by the government in response to the #coronavirus pandemic, Michael Gove said it was important "to treat people with respect" trib.al/VuxMzH0
Three stories to read this afternoon
🔴73 contract #COVID19 after outbreak on Herefordshire farm trib.al/m4ORcUp
🔴Michael Gove says face masks aren't compulsory in shops trib.al/UOl1tHO
🔴Vaccine could be available in first half of 2021 trib.al/bYWJj3w
🔴73 contract #COVID19 after outbreak on Herefordshire farm trib.al/m4ORcUp
🔴Michael Gove says face masks aren't compulsory in shops trib.al/UOl1tHO
🔴Vaccine could be available in first half of 2021 trib.al/bYWJj3w
