Tweets Analysis - Keyword: @AzmatZahra
Overview
Total number of tweets analysed
106
Earliest tweet was on
2023-03-22
Latest tweet was on
2023-03-31
Tweets covering
8 days
Average age of authors' accounts
8 years
Summarization
Several Twitter users are criticizing the New York Times for their role in the Iraq War, with one user suggesting that the paper should name those responsible for pushing for the war. Another user accuses the Times of intentionally lying and misleading the American public. Some tweets reference the work of journalist Azmat Khan, who has reported on drone strikes and civilian casualties in conflict zones. A few users mention technical difficulties related to a canceled Twitter Space and op-eds during the Iraq War. Other tweets express appreciation for Khan's work and promote her upcoming panel at a journalism festival.
Topic Modeling
- The role of the NY Times in the Iraq War and their responsibility in misleading the public
- The impact of drone strikes on civilians and challenges in reporting on it
- Source protection and challenges in remote reporting
- Criticism of the NY Times and their reporting on sensitive issues
- Technical difficulties and accountability, particularly in relation to military operations
Emotional Analysis
The emotions expressed in these tweets are largely critical and accusing towards the NY Times, with several users expressing frustration and anger over the newspaper's role in the Iraq War and their alleged lack of transparency about it. Others express gratitude and admiration towards journalist Azmat Zahra for her reporting on important issues related to remote killing and source protection. There is also a sense of skepticism and cynicism towards the military industrial complex, with some users mocking the use of the phrase "technical difficulties" to cover up serious issues.
Trend Analysis
- Reporting on war and its impact on civilians
- Criticism of the New York Times' coverage and accountability for past reporting
- Journalism industry events and panels
- Source protection and challenges in reporting remotely
- Technical issues with military and government communications and transparency
Types of Tweets
Number of Retweets
34
Percentage of total tweets
32%
Number of Original tweets
2
Percentage of total tweets
1%
Number of tweets that contain Mentions
106
Percentage of total tweets
100%
Number of tweets that were Replies
70
Percentage of total tweets
66%
Number of tweets that were Quotes
4
Percentage of total tweets
3%
Number of tweets that contain Hashtags
5
Percentage of total tweets
4%
Top 5 devices used to tweet
| Source | Count |
|---|---|
| Twitter Web App | 47 |
| Twitter for iPhone | 30 |
| Twitter for Android | 27 |
| Twitter for iPad | 2 |
What devices were used to tweet
Top 10 accounts with highest followers count
| Username | Name | Bio | Followers count |
|---|---|---|---|
| trbrtc | Christiaan Triebert | Visual Investigations at @nytimes. Previously with @bellingcat and @airwars. Retired hitchhiker. Learn digital verification in a fun way → @quiztime. | 106,432 |
| AzmatZahra | Azmat Khan | Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter @NYTimes & @NYTmag | Birch Professor & Li Center Director @ColumbiaJourn | ✍️ PRECISION STRIKE @RandomHouse | 84,133 |
| airwars | Airwars | The civilian harm watchdog | 28,707 |
| Inhumansoflate1 | Against late capitalism 🪶 | resisting late capitalism a news journal of late capitalism and it’s inhumanity . they/them a trans indigenous journalist ☭ 🚩#humansoflatecapitalism | 24,863 |
| shephardm | Michelle Shephard | Journalist, filmmaker. Books: Decade of Fear & Guantanamo's Child. Former @TorontoStar #natsec reporter. CBC podcast host & producer. Co-founder @FFFilms_ | 17,535 |
| ramitanavai | Ramita Navai | 🇮🇷 CITY OF LIES (Political Book Award) Afghanistan doc on @ITV & @frontlinepbs Top 10 Apple podcast THE LINE OF FIRE. Agent: Vanessa Fogarty @CBGPresenters | 14,726 |
| LynzyBilling | Lynzy Billing | Investigative Journalist & Photographer @washingtonpost @latimes @TIME @NYMag @ForeignPolicy @guardian @AJEnglish @propublica @VICE @NPR @ELLEmagazine and more. | 13,807 |
| joedyke | Joe | Head of investigations @Airwars. Former @AFP chief Palestinian territories correspondent, Middle East editor @newhumanitarian. DMs open for tips | 9,807 |
| AndrewJFrankli1 | Andrew J Franklin | Government Government & Politics International Politics World News News Former Marine!Practical expertise on matters of security and law in Kenya and IGAD. | 7,294 |
| disruptberlin | Disruption Network Lab | Events on hacktivism, whistleblowing and holding power accountable. Last conference: SMART PRISONS, March 24-26 | 6,103 |
Top 10 accounts with highest friends count
| Username | Name | Bio | Followers count |
|---|---|---|---|
| AzmatZahra | Azmat Khan | Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter @NYTimes & @NYTmag | Birch Professor & Li Center Director @ColumbiaJourn | ✍️ PRECISION STRIKE @RandomHouse | 7,261 |
| AndrewJFrankli1 | Andrew J Franklin | Government Government & Politics International Politics World News News Former Marine!Practical expertise on matters of security and law in Kenya and IGAD. | 6,402 |
| RizviSalim | SalimRizvi | Multimedia Journalist. RTs not endorsements...well, not always... | 5,006 |
| aditimadhura | Aditi Gupta | Policy director @IBVprev | Co-founder @MPSintheUK | @Airwars board | Formerly @APPGdronesmc | 5,005 |
| GradyTripp00 | Adam ⚾️ | Comments on Film, TV, Music, @BlueJays, U.S. & Canadian politics. | 4,996 |
| sanjanamv | Sanjana | this is my third rodeo / investigator @airwars / journalist, writer, visual researcher elsewhere sanjanamvarghese@gmail.com | 4,141 |
| joedyke | Joe | Head of investigations @Airwars. Former @AFP chief Palestinian territories correspondent, Middle East editor @newhumanitarian. DMs open for tips | 4,113 |
| DownieSeb | Seb Downie-Blackwell (tired) | Dad, Husband, Game Dev, Global Scot. Head of Production/Partner at remote control productions (@rcp_tweets) Death From Above - support it now 🇺🇦 | 4,012 |
| lalitapetila | lalita petila | Sorry,I do not replay to private messages | 3,767 |
| disruptberlin | Disruption Network Lab | Events on hacktivism, whistleblowing and holding power accountable. Last conference: SMART PRISONS, March 24-26 | 3,628 |
Most active users
| Username | Bio | Number of tweets |
|---|---|---|
| Salmak08453430 | Iss Desh Mai Andhay Hakim Hain Na Dartay Hain Na Nadim Hain - Habib Jaleeb | 4 |
| rherror404 | - | 3 |
| joedyke | Head of investigations @Airwars. Former @AFP chief Palestinian territories correspondent, Middle East editor @newhumanitarian. DMs open for tips | 2 |
| atTheStoryGiver | History that wasn’t taught is what we live now. Books Don’t Bite 😉Dysfunctional wizard. #GoodWins #Manifester #StarSeed #MakerOfBoys | 2 |
| trbrtc | Visual Investigations at @nytimes. Previously with @bellingcat and @airwars. Retired hitchhiker. Learn digital verification in a fun way → @quiztime. | 2 |
| LynzyBilling | Investigative Journalist & Photographer @washingtonpost @latimes @TIME @NYMag @ForeignPolicy @guardian @AJEnglish @propublica @VICE @NPR @ELLEmagazine and more. | 2 |
| AzmatZahra | Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter @NYTimes & @NYTmag | Birch Professor & Li Center Director @ColumbiaJourn | ✍️ PRECISION STRIKE @RandomHouse | 2 |
| MelvynIngleby | Middle East correspondent @NRC Previously Turkey for @Trouw @TheAtlantic @DeGroene | 2 |
| Inhumansoflate1 | resisting late capitalism a news journal of late capitalism and it’s inhumanity . they/them a trans indigenous journalist ☭ 🚩#humansoflatecapitalism | 2 |
| thecuttman | Just your average Jewish American home owning wife guy and dad with 2 kids and a dog with a heavy anti fascist anti apartheid sentiment. | 2 |
Tweets per day
Top 10 tweets with highest Retweet count
| ID | Text | Retweet count |
|---|---|---|
| 1638846475550572545 | The catastrophic failures that killed a six-year-old child For months after @_EmmaGH and I met the Younis family in Mosul, @julnueno @azul_demonte & @sanjanamv compared their testimony with drone pilot chatlogs released to @AzmatZahra https://t.co/P92yphXvvf https://t.co/s6TntskF1h | 24 |
| 1640330719129145344 | Reporting on remote killing: unique challenges and source protection This year I’ll be in Perugia for @journalismfest with @soniakennebeck @AzmatZahra @t_bazz and @McClellanKM Come along! #IJF2023 https://t.co/w2q47geJcB | 7 |
| 1638850969973792768 | @_EmmaGH @julnueno @azul_demonte @sanjanamv @AzmatZahra Not to be too self-aggrandising, but we shouldn't really be the ones doing this. Mosul is safe enough for UK forces to conduct on the ground investigations into whether they killed civilians. The MoD has shown no interest in understanding the civilian impact of its strikes. https://t.co/rBoknE02pm | 6 |
| 1641470728364064772 | We simply don't know what the intel behind this classification was, because CENTCOM and the Dutch MoD don't say. What we do know, again thanks to @AzmatZahra, is that the intel was often deeply flawed. Read some of her amazing work here [13/17] https://t.co/7g0qYbOazP | 4 |
| 1638551241440591874 | @nytimes @swin24 @AzmatZahra @peterbakernyt @NYTimes: ‘We were instrumental in selling the Iraq War by intentionally lying & misleading the American people. And ya, we acknowledged this in 2004 when we apologized for our role, but does the public really need to know how many hundreds of thousands died? We don’t think so.’ | 3 |
| 1638550193212628993 | @nytimes @AzmatZahra @peterbakernyt lol Y'know an article actually acknowledging your role in the war and maybe even naming of names of those that really pushed for it and shouted down antiwar voices would go a long way but I know you'll never do that | 2 |
| 1638496688326295554 | In @airwars immersive article we break down our methodology tracing 1,166 UK weapons releases. We matched some of these incidents with Civilian Casualty Reports released to @AzmatZahra in @nytimes, and we found 8 potential British strikes on civilians https://t.co/j9NEIc86TL | 1 |
| 1641470710991187970 | A 2017 @CENTCOM assessment of the Dutch attack, which was made public thanks to the work of @AzmatZahra @nytimes, concludes "0" civilians were killed and "0 "wounded. It also says "the target was guarded and only ISIS personnel were permitted to enter the building." [7/17] https://t.co/racCsGGncC | 1 |
| 1638549759756754946 | @nytimes @AzmatZahra @peterbakernyt Will the follow-up reporting about these technical difficulties be similar to the follow-up reporting on the op-eds you were running during the run-up to the Iraq war? | 1 |
| 1638580640663625728 | @nytimes @robdelaney @AzmatZahra @peterbakernyt Are the technical difficulties that it’s technically difficult for you to ignore people pointing out the blood on the hands of the NYT? | 1 |
Top 10 tweets with highest Like count
| ID | Text | Like count |
|---|---|---|
| 1638550193212628993 | @nytimes @AzmatZahra @peterbakernyt lol Y'know an article actually acknowledging your role in the war and maybe even naming of names of those that really pushed for it and shouted down antiwar voices would go a long way but I know you'll never do that | 79 |
| 1638551241440591874 | @nytimes @swin24 @AzmatZahra @peterbakernyt @NYTimes: ‘We were instrumental in selling the Iraq War by intentionally lying & misleading the American people. And ya, we acknowledged this in 2004 when we apologized for our role, but does the public really need to know how many hundreds of thousands died? We don’t think so.’ | 44 |
| 1638846475550572545 | The catastrophic failures that killed a six-year-old child For months after @_EmmaGH and I met the Younis family in Mosul, @julnueno @azul_demonte & @sanjanamv compared their testimony with drone pilot chatlogs released to @AzmatZahra https://t.co/P92yphXvvf https://t.co/s6TntskF1h | 31 |
| 1640330719129145344 | Reporting on remote killing: unique challenges and source protection This year I’ll be in Perugia for @journalismfest with @soniakennebeck @AzmatZahra @t_bazz and @McClellanKM Come along! #IJF2023 https://t.co/w2q47geJcB | 20 |
| 1638555153384210433 | @nytimes @kenklippenstein @AzmatZahra @peterbakernyt We are canceling our Twitter Space on our article "Hitler tamed by Prison" from December 1924 because of technical difficulties | 15 |
| 1638850969973792768 | @_EmmaGH @julnueno @azul_demonte @sanjanamv @AzmatZahra Not to be too self-aggrandising, but we shouldn't really be the ones doing this. Mosul is safe enough for UK forces to conduct on the ground investigations into whether they killed civilians. The MoD has shown no interest in understanding the civilian impact of its strikes. https://t.co/rBoknE02pm | 13 |
| 1638549319623102465 | @nytimes @AzmatZahra @peterbakernyt https://t.co/wuZnntMr4Z | 8 |
| 1638549759756754946 | @nytimes @AzmatZahra @peterbakernyt Will the follow-up reporting about these technical difficulties be similar to the follow-up reporting on the op-eds you were running during the run-up to the Iraq war? | 8 |
| 1641470728364064772 | We simply don't know what the intel behind this classification was, because CENTCOM and the Dutch MoD don't say. What we do know, again thanks to @AzmatZahra, is that the intel was often deeply flawed. Read some of her amazing work here [13/17] https://t.co/7g0qYbOazP | 7 |
| 1641470710991187970 | A 2017 @CENTCOM assessment of the Dutch attack, which was made public thanks to the work of @AzmatZahra @nytimes, concludes "0" civilians were killed and "0 "wounded. It also says "the target was guarded and only ISIS personnel were permitted to enter the building." [7/17] https://t.co/racCsGGncC | 5 |
Top 3 Languages Used In Tweets
Top 10 Hashtags used
| Hashtag | Count |
|---|---|
| #ijf2023 | 3 |
| #burn | 1 |
| #ukraine | 1 |
Top 10 Hashtags Used In Tweets
Top 10 mentions
| Mention | Count |
|---|---|
| @azmatzahra | 106 |
| @nytimes | 76 |
| @peterbakernyt | 67 |
| @kenklippenstein | 14 |
| @robdelaney | 9 |
| @un_hrc | 8 |
| @julnueno | 8 |
| @_emmagh | 7 |
| @azul_demonte | 7 |
| @sanjanamv | 7 |
Top 10 mentions
Wordcloud of Tweets
Emojis
Average number of emojis used per tweet
9
Emojis used in tweets
| Emoji | Count | Emoji Text |
|---|---|---|
| 😂 | 3 | face_with_tears_of_joy |
| 🙏🏼 | 1 | folded_hands_medium-light_skin_tone |
| ❤️ | 1 | red_heart |
| 🙏🏾 | 1 | folded_hands_medium-dark_skin_tone |
| 🤣 | 1 | rolling_on_the_floor_laughing |
| 🤮 | 1 | face_vomiting |
| 🤡 | 1 | clown_face |
| 🤔 | 1 | thinking_face |
Emojis groups
| Emoji Group | Count |
|---|---|
| Smileys & Emotion | 8 |
| People & Body | 2 |