Only 22 per cent Americans actually use Twitter, but among them those who disapprove of US President Donald Trump dominate the conversations on national politics on the social media platform, says a new report from the Pew Research Center.
This group - - those who disapprove of Trump - - generates 80 per cent of all tweets from US adults and 72 per cent of tweets mentioning national politics, said the study released on Wednesday.
Those who strongly approve of Trump produce 11 per cent of all tweets from US adults.
They create 25 per cent of tweets mentioning national politics.
Taken together, strong disapprovers and strong approvers of Trump generate 97 per cent of all tweets mentioning national politics from US adults on Twitter.
The survey involved 2, 427 respondents with public Twitter accounts.
Collectively, the participants produced more than 1. 1 million tweets over the course of the study period - June 10, 2018 - June 9, 2019.
The Pew Research Center used a guided Machine Learning model to classify each of these 1. 1 million tweets as related to national politics or not.
The prevalence of tweets mentioning national politics from US adults who strongly disapprove of Trump is tied to two factors.
First, this group makes up a larger share of Twitter users than of the general public.
The share of US adults on Twitter who strongly disapprove of Trump (55 per cent) is seven percentage points higher than the share of the general public that holds this view (48 per cent).
Second, this group is more likely to tweet about national politics than others on Twitter.
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