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Trump, Twitter, and Truth Social: how Trump used both mainstream and alt-tech social media to drive news media attention

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Information Technology & Politics, March 2024
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#3 of 433)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (90th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
65 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
twitter
21 X users
facebook
1 Facebook page
reddit
1 Redditor

Readers on

mendeley
4 Mendeley
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Title
Trump, Twitter, and Truth Social: how Trump used both mainstream and alt-tech social media to drive news media attention
Published in
Journal of Information Technology & Politics, March 2024
DOI 10.1080/19331681.2024.2328156
Authors

Yini Zhang, Josephine Lukito, Jiyoun Suk, Ryan McGrady

X Demographics

X Demographics

The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 21 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 4 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 4 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 2 50%
Unspecified 1 25%
Student > Master 1 25%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Arts and Humanities 1 25%
Unspecified 1 25%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 25%
Design 1 25%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 512. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 05 May 2024.
All research outputs
#51,429
of 25,999,665 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Information Technology & Politics
#3
of 433 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#789
of 340,970 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Information Technology & Politics
#1
of 10 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,999,665 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 433 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 15.2. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 340,970 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 10 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than all of them