Tweets Analysis - Keyword: @iww
Overview
Total number of tweets analysed
93
Earliest tweet was on
2023-02-10
Latest tweet was on
2023-02-21
Tweets covering
10 days
Average age of authors' accounts
6 years
Summarization
This series of tweets highlight people who were prominent members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), like T-Bone Slim and Angela Bambace, who was born on February 14, 1898 and February 14, 1882, respectively. Other points include news about Ben Fletcher, an IWW organizer; a strike of rubber workers in Akron that was organized by IWW and had 3,500 strikers; and a resolution that was submitted in support of Urban Ore Workers Unionizing using IWW representation. This thread also contains shout-outs to ILWU, EL Gazette and Trent Willis, who is talking about a book about IWW organizer Ben Fletcher, as well as shoutouts to unions fighting for free speech, such as IWW. It also mentions a 'Rage for the Machine' band. Lastly, the tweet mentions Dope, which is information from the legendary IWW comic, Mr. Block.
Topic Modeling
- IWW - Industrial Workers of the World
- Labor Movement - Strikes, Unionizing, Organizing
- Memorial - Brianna Ghey, Ben Fletcher
- Topics in History - T-Bone Slim, Angela Bambace, rubber workers strike
- Rights - Workers Rights, Trans Rights, Free Speech
Emotional Analysis
The tweets express a range of emotions, from pride and joy in the accomplishments of members of the IWW union, to solidarity and respect for Brianna Ghey and other activists, to admiration for the history of the IWW in fighting for free speech, to frustration and anger at the ownership of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. The tweets also express hope and optimism for the future of the union, with announcements of new initiatives and events. Overall, the tweets convey a sense of enthusiasm and commitment to the IWW union and its members.
Trend Analysis
- IWW - Industrial Workers of the World
- Strikes and labor struggles in the early 1900s
- Trans rights and LGBTQ+ activists
- The history of the labor movement
- Recent worker organizing and unionization efforts
Types of Tweets
Number of Retweets
28
Percentage of total tweets
30%
Number of Original tweets
14
Percentage of total tweets
15%
Number of tweets that contain Mentions
93
Percentage of total tweets
100%
Number of tweets that were Replies
46
Percentage of total tweets
49%
Number of tweets that were Quotes
8
Percentage of total tweets
8%
Number of tweets that contain Hashtags
20
Percentage of total tweets
21%
Top 5 devices used to tweet
Source | Count |
---|---|
Twitter for Android | 47 |
Twitter Web App | 24 |
Twitter for iPhone | 12 |
Hootsuite Inc. | 7 |
Twitter for iPad | 3 |
What devices were used to tweet

Top 10 accounts with highest followers count
Username | Name | Bio | Followers count |
---|---|---|---|
wrkclasshistory | Working Class History | #OtD tweets & podcast. History isn't made by kings or politicians, it's made by billions of ordinary people. Support us: https://t.co/BfXZmiqe8a | 142,347 |
NikPeachey | NikPeachey | Co-founder https://t.co/6o0xPcZuc4. Award-Winning Writer, Course Designer, Edtech Trainer, Blogger, International Conference Speaker. #TESOL #ELT #TEFL #EDTECH | 24,279 |
London_AFA | London Anti-Fascist Assembly | Grassroots antifascists. Mobilising platform & community infrastructure. Horizontal, inclusive & accessible. London is antifascist!londonafa@riseup.net | 8,043 |
JohnReed_1917 | John S. Reed ☭ Джон Рид🚩 | John S. Reed #1917LIVE+#1918LIVE #1919LIVE #1920LIVE Poet, Writer, #Bolshevik #ДжонРид ☭#Communist Labor Party Of America🚩Р.С.Ф.С.Р☭ 1887-1920 @RT_1917 | 7,943 |
RedSquirrelFtw | Red Squirrel 🇨🇦 | #thankatrucker Proud member of the "fringe minority". 🚛 🚛 🚛 🇨🇦 For smaller government and individual freedoms. #trudeaumustgoBackup: @gingersquirrel | 5,854 |
Fuck12_24_7 | Fuck Capitalism Ⓥ ☭ | #BLM #PTSD #ACAB Rape&child abuse survivor.Vegan.Fuck Capitalism/Fuck Imperialism/Fuck Racists/Fuck Bigots/Fuck Sexists/Fuck Animal Abusers | 5,743 |
PGHGuild | Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh 🗞 | Representing the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette newsroom and full-time faculty at Point Park University | TNG-CWA Local 38061 | Support our strikers’ work: @ThePUPNews | 4,803 |
TaplinTerry | Terry Taplin🚰🏳️🌈🥑🌹🚲🚍✍️🏾 | Berkeley Councilmember, D2. Holy Alliance. Poet. Cyclist. Urbanist. Public Safety Chair. FITES. 2x2. To reach me, contact Ttaplin@cityofberkeley.info. | 4,563 |
Jimpsonseed69 | Jimpsonseed | 🇺🇸 Alpha male. Conservative. ProLife. USNR. 2A. Determined. Fearless. Love USA. 🇺🇸 ULTRA PATRIOT 🇺🇸 DMs and pot heads=blocked 🇺🇸 | 4,171 |
Last_Bolshevik | Last Bolshevik 😷💉🖖🏽☭🔻🏒 | Fmr VC Socialist Party of Florida, Fmr @RT_Com Contributor #1917LIVE, Founded #1918LIVE #1919LIVE #1920LIVE Nonaligned 4th Internationalist #Троцкий 💗💛💙🇮🇷 | 3,674 |
Top 10 accounts with highest friends count
Username | Name | Bio | Followers count |
---|---|---|---|
NikPeachey | NikPeachey | Co-founder https://t.co/6o0xPcZuc4. Award-Winning Writer, Course Designer, Edtech Trainer, Blogger, International Conference Speaker. #TESOL #ELT #TEFL #EDTECH | 15,439 |
RedSquirrelFtw | Red Squirrel 🇨🇦 | #thankatrucker Proud member of the "fringe minority". 🚛 🚛 🚛 🇨🇦 For smaller government and individual freedoms. #trudeaumustgoBackup: @gingersquirrel | 6,017 |
Fuck12_24_7 | Fuck Capitalism Ⓥ ☭ | #BLM #PTSD #ACAB Rape&child abuse survivor.Vegan.Fuck Capitalism/Fuck Imperialism/Fuck Racists/Fuck Bigots/Fuck Sexists/Fuck Animal Abusers | 5,336 |
IrelandIww | IWW Ireland | The Industrial Workers of the World, Ireland Branch: a union for all workers!https://t.co/0hCiNRarTR | 5,001 |
IWWEUC | IWW EUC | The Industrial Workers of the World Environmental Unionist Caucus argue class struggle and the environment are issues which share common causes | 4,925 |
Last_Bolshevik | Last Bolshevik 😷💉🖖🏽☭🔻🏒 | Fmr VC Socialist Party of Florida, Fmr @RT_Com Contributor #1917LIVE, Founded #1918LIVE #1919LIVE #1920LIVE Nonaligned 4th Internationalist #Троцкий 💗💛💙🇮🇷 | 4,811 |
ElShadowErizo41 | Grande Estados Unidos de México | - | 4,707 |
Jimpsonseed69 | Jimpsonseed | 🇺🇸 Alpha male. Conservative. ProLife. USNR. 2A. Determined. Fearless. Love USA. 🇺🇸 ULTRA PATRIOT 🇺🇸 DMs and pot heads=blocked 🇺🇸 | 4,397 |
JohnReed_1917 | John S. Reed ☭ Джон Рид🚩 | John S. Reed #1917LIVE+#1918LIVE #1919LIVE #1920LIVE Poet, Writer, #Bolshevik #ДжонРид ☭#Communist Labor Party Of America🚩Р.С.Ф.С.Р☭ 1887-1920 @RT_1917 | 4,314 |
TheCynicalWon | Cascadian Soviet | It’s all just poo in a glass, so the glass is half full of sh*t💩; the only enemy is counterrevolution. cynical optimist, @iww | 2,786 |
Most active users
Username | Bio | Number of tweets |
---|---|---|
wrkclasshistory | #OtD tweets & podcast. History isn't made by kings or politicians, it's made by billions of ordinary people. Support us: https://t.co/BfXZmiqe8a | 6 |
TuasTonang | General Chairman of Supreme board of Free trade unions SETIAKAWAN of IndonesiaTrainner for How to making industrial relations harmony | 4 |
IrelandIww | The Industrial Workers of the World, Ireland Branch: a union for all workers!https://t.co/0hCiNRarTR | 4 |
TeflUnion | We like our students. We like our jobs. We like our workmates. We don’t like struggling to pay the bills. We don’t like insecure employment. Join us! | 4 |
Last_Bolshevik | Fmr VC Socialist Party of Florida, Fmr @RT_Com Contributor #1917LIVE, Founded #1918LIVE #1919LIVE #1920LIVE Nonaligned 4th Internationalist #Троцкий 💗💛💙🇮🇷 | 3 |
ProfPeterCole | Historian of workers, unions, port cities & race. Books: Ben Fletcher, Dockworker Power in Durban & SF, Wobblies on Waterfront, etc. Codirects @ChicagoRaceRiot | 3 |
JohnReed_1917 | John S. Reed #1917LIVE+#1918LIVE #1919LIVE #1920LIVE Poet, Writer, #Bolshevik #ДжонРид ☭#Communist Labor Party Of America🚩Р.С.Ф.С.Р☭ 1887-1920 @RT_1917 | 3 |
JonnyStrike | A weird and hypocritical mix of working class scumness and received pronunciation. Proud Catholic and libertarian socialist. | 3 |
DariusCEngel | Bolshevik-Leninist / Union Member, #Trekkie #RevolutionNow Comrade/Comrade | 3 |
Rhyddical | Editor of Organise MagazineMember of @AnarchistFedOrganiser of @BookfairLDNMalatesta with a laptop - Kuwasi MaroonUser of corny lingo | 3 |
Tweets per day

Top 10 tweets with highest Retweet count
ID | Text | Retweet count |
---|---|---|
1625857896289550341 | #OtD 15 Feb 1913 a strike of rubber workers in Akron organised by @iww union grew to 3,500 strikers. Earlier that month 300 workers at Firestone walked out and were eventually joined by 20K others but police violence & repression forced them to end it https://t.co/PKYbWpRjre https://t.co/667Lvzuwfz | 30 |
1625480299810283520 | #OtD 14 Feb 1898 Angela Bambace, revolutionary garment worker was born in Santos, Brazil. She moved to NYC, went to @iww meetings, organised a dressmakers strike in 1919 and organised with the ILGWU until her retirement aged 74 https://t.co/OlGAzCnKZb | 29 |
1624176354781548544 | New! We've just added loads of entries to our timeline of stories and map about @IWW organiser Ben Fletcher. Podcast about him coming soon with @ProfPeterCole ! https://t.co/NNNmOOq07P https://t.co/zIIrrMWFW3 | 24 |
1625989722223915010 | Ireland Solidarity: Rest in Power Brianna Ghey. Several hundred people gathered in central locations across the country in Belfast, Derry, Dublin in memory of Brianna. @BelfastIWW @iww #transrightsareworkersrights #transrightsarehumanrights #AnInjuryToOneIsAnInjuryToAll https://t.co/4JpMvXZ3MK | 20 |
1625449990314160135 | #OtD 14 Feb 1882, radical hobo, author, songwriter, & member of the @iww T-Bone Slim, was born. He worked as a lumberjack, a harvest labourer, a cook & a waterfront worker. For over 20 years, he was also the IWW's most prolific and well-read columnists https://t.co/8jS5phpLwk https://t.co/FQArw5oVTn | 19 |
1626129422515417088 | Fellow #IWW branches, help us spread the word: There's a #union for #TEFL workers! A union that fights & wins for its members! ✊✊✊ https://t.co/Mu5YxF8L0C #tefl #UKELT @iww @IWWManchester @BristolIWW @clydesideiww @Liverpool_IWW @IWWBrighton @IrelandIww @iwweastern @iwwita1 | 12 |
1626746335457349633 | I submitted a resolution today in support of @urbanoreworkers unionizing under representation by @iww/@sfbayareaiww! They’re having a customer support day this Saturday, February 18, from 1 to 3 pm, where you can learn more and receive a poster of their beloved shop cat Bobby 🐱 https://t.co/XrSL3XHhWd | 6 |
1627128976559964160 | @Unkoid1 @iww @IrelandIww This is false, as Wildcat is indeed being sent to incarcerated workers in English occupied Ireland, and it was stated and recorded being said by the IWW Ireland. The second is libel, as the interviewed member approved the language as he was recorded saying the exact words. https://t.co/KhXHUaH5iO | 4 |
1627246707724394497 | It's Sunday morning. Why not take a moment to learn how the #TeflWorkersUnion has been supporting our members?Thanks to our friends at the @ELGazette! ⬇️https://t.co/3ZkctyhK0q#tefl #elt @iww @thornburyscott @kierandonaghy @HancockMcDonald @philipjohnkerr @NikPeachey https://t.co/lQaZ0gfLhZ | 4 |
1627739932776140819 | This Thursday, Trent Willis of @ILWU_10 @Chiangstar and I will discuss my #book Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly. First 50 attendees get themselves a free copy! @ilwulongshore @PMPressOrg @iww https://t.co/8pGgpniYxV | 4 |
Top 10 tweets with highest Like count
ID | Text | Like count |
---|---|---|
1625449990314160135 | #OtD 14 Feb 1882, radical hobo, author, songwriter, & member of the @iww T-Bone Slim, was born. He worked as a lumberjack, a harvest labourer, a cook & a waterfront worker. For over 20 years, he was also the IWW's most prolific and well-read columnists https://t.co/8jS5phpLwk https://t.co/FQArw5oVTn | 116 |
1625480299810283520 | #OtD 14 Feb 1898 Angela Bambace, revolutionary garment worker was born in Santos, Brazil. She moved to NYC, went to @iww meetings, organised a dressmakers strike in 1919 and organised with the ILGWU until her retirement aged 74 https://t.co/OlGAzCnKZb | 90 |
1624176354781548544 | New! We've just added loads of entries to our timeline of stories and map about @IWW organiser Ben Fletcher. Podcast about him coming soon with @ProfPeterCole ! https://t.co/NNNmOOq07P https://t.co/zIIrrMWFW3 | 73 |
1625857896289550341 | #OtD 15 Feb 1913 a strike of rubber workers in Akron organised by @iww union grew to 3,500 strikers. Earlier that month 300 workers at Firestone walked out and were eventually joined by 20K others but police violence & repression forced them to end it https://t.co/PKYbWpRjre https://t.co/667Lvzuwfz | 52 |
1625989722223915010 | Ireland Solidarity: Rest in Power Brianna Ghey. Several hundred people gathered in central locations across the country in Belfast, Derry, Dublin in memory of Brianna. @BelfastIWW @iww #transrightsareworkersrights #transrightsarehumanrights #AnInjuryToOneIsAnInjuryToAll https://t.co/4JpMvXZ3MK | 51 |
1626746335457349633 | I submitted a resolution today in support of @urbanoreworkers unionizing under representation by @iww/@sfbayareaiww! They’re having a customer support day this Saturday, February 18, from 1 to 3 pm, where you can learn more and receive a poster of their beloved shop cat Bobby 🐱 https://t.co/XrSL3XHhWd | 19 |
1624837793993064449 | I am now officially a dues paying member of the @iww | 15 |
1626129422515417088 | Fellow #IWW branches, help us spread the word: There's a #union for #TEFL workers! A union that fights & wins for its members! ✊✊✊ https://t.co/Mu5YxF8L0C #tefl #UKELT @iww @IWWManchester @BristolIWW @clydesideiww @Liverpool_IWW @IWWBrighton @IrelandIww @iwweastern @iwwita1 | 14 |
1627739932776140819 | This Thursday, Trent Willis of @ILWU_10 @Chiangstar and I will discuss my #book Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly. First 50 attendees get themselves a free copy! @ilwulongshore @PMPressOrg @iww https://t.co/8pGgpniYxV | 13 |
1627246707724394497 | It's Sunday morning. Why not take a moment to learn how the #TeflWorkersUnion has been supporting our members?Thanks to our friends at the @ELGazette! ⬇️https://t.co/3ZkctyhK0q#tefl #elt @iww @thornburyscott @kierandonaghy @HancockMcDonald @philipjohnkerr @NikPeachey https://t.co/lQaZ0gfLhZ | 11 |
Top 3 Languages Used In Tweets

Top 10 Hashtags used
Hashtag | Count |
---|---|
#otd | 6 |
#tefl | 3 |
#transrightsarehumanrights | 3 |
#aninjurytooneisaninjurytoall | 3 |
#book | 2 |
#teflworkersunion | 2 |
#elt | 2 |
#ireland | 2 |
#iww | 2 |
#union | 2 |
Top 10 Hashtags Used In Tweets

Top 10 mentions
Mention | Count |
---|---|
@iww | 93 |
@irelandiww | 17 |
@jackson_reffitt | 9 |
@wrkclasshistory | 9 |
@clydesideiww | 6 |
@iwwfju | 6 |
@profpetercole | 5 |
@johnreed_1917 | 5 |
@ilo | 5 |
@sfbayareaiww | 5 |
Top 10 mentions

Wordcloud of Tweets

Emojis
Average number of emojis used per tweet
27
Emojis used in tweets
Emoji | Count | Emoji Text |
---|---|---|
✊ | 9 | raised_fist |
🤣 | 5 | rolling_on_the_floor_laughing |
🗞 | 2 | rolled-up_newspaper |
👥 | 2 | busts_in_silhouette |
⬇️ | 2 | down_arrow |
🐱 | 2 | cat_face |
🕺 | 1 | man_dancing |
❤️ | 1 | red_heart |
📚 | 1 | books |
👇 | 1 | backhand_index_pointing_down |
Emojis groups
Emoji Group | Count |
---|---|
People & Body | 13 |
Smileys & Emotion | 6 |
Objects | 3 |
Symbols | 2 |
Animals & Nature | 2 |