In the 24 hours after each event, people tweeted about Trump almost two times more when he had Covid in 2020, and three and half times more after the January 6 Capitol riot, according to Zignal Labs.
But there’s no denying that Twitter as an app has lost some of its magic as the most happening place to be during a major breaking news moment and that Trump has lost his sheen as the de facto king of social media, with Twitter being his primary platform of choice.ĭata from media intelligence firm Zignal Labs shows how discussion of Trump’s arrest paled in comparison to other major news cycles involving the former president. For one, people care less about Trump than they did when he was president, and the arrest was visually boring and low on drama. Now, Goines said, the reaction was “underwhelming” and “muted.”
“When Trump got Covid in October 2020, folks were glued to Twitter and were hanging onto every moment and the schadenfreude was off the charts,” writer and activist Chip Goines said in a text. The platform is known as the first place people turn to find and riff on breaking news with witty commentary and unfiltered reactions.īut on Tuesday, the reaction to Trump’s arraignment on the social media platform was a bit of a snoozefest. A few years ago, the historic arrest of a former US president - especially one as polarizing and bombastic as Donald Trump - would have been a moment made for Twitter.
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