Tweets Analysis - Keyword: @johnpringdns
Overview
Total number of tweets analysed
1,304
Earliest tweet was on
2023-02-11
Latest tweet was on
2023-02-21
Tweets covering
10 days
Average age of authors' accounts
8 years
Summarization
John Pringdns has been covering various issues regarding the Equality Act, including Network Rail building steps-only footbridges, the increase of unstaffed stations and trains, disabled passengers needing to book assistance before their journeys, and the difficulty of accessing benefits. Additionally, DWP is being asked to publish figures on universal credit claimants, energy regulator is being asked to prevent disabled people from being forced onto prepayment meters, and disability-based bullying at schools is being reported as a hate crime.
Topic Modeling
- Accessibility for disabled people in public transportation
- Universal Credit and benefit sanctions
- The impact of disability stigma
- Mental health services
- Hate crime against disabled people
Emotional Analysis
The emotions expressed in these tweets are largely frustration, anger, and despair. The tweets focus on issues of disability rights, the need for accessible public transportation, and the difficulties of navigating the bureaucracy of the welfare system. Many of the tweets criticize the government for not providing equal access or for punishing disabled people for trying to access benefits. There is also a sense of helplessness and sadness, as many of the tweets express a desire for more support and resources, but feel powerless to make any real change.
Trend Analysis
- Violation of the Equality Act
- Accessibility of public transport for disabled people
- Mental health services failing
- Benefit sanctions and Universal Credit
- State violence against disabled people
Types of Tweets
Number of Retweets
307
Percentage of total tweets
23%
Number of Original tweets
106
Percentage of total tweets
8%
Number of tweets that contain Mentions
1,304
Percentage of total tweets
100%
Number of tweets that were Replies
873
Percentage of total tweets
66%
Number of tweets that were Quotes
38
Percentage of total tweets
2%
Number of tweets that contain Hashtags
120
Percentage of total tweets
9%
Top 5 devices used to tweet
| Source | Count |
|---|---|
| Twitter Web App | 521 |
| Twitter for Android | 434 |
| Twitter for iPhone | 212 |
| Twitter for iPad | 88 |
| TweetDeck | 36 |
What devices were used to tweet
Top 10 accounts with highest followers count
| Username | Name | Bio | Followers count |
|---|---|---|---|
| paullewismoney | Paul Lewis | Financial journalist, broadcaster, speaker. Seek, find, tell truth. Book https://t.co/cRfvNI5p93 Unequivocally for free speech & press. Wilkie Collins expert too | 156,780 |
| Tanni_GT | Tanni Grey-Thompson | Lady GT (no longer a Dame), House of Lords Crossbench Peer, Chair ukactive and Dof E, DL, Mum, Welsh, Paralympian. Email greythompsont@parliament.uk | 69,288 |
| DrFrancesRyan | Frances Ryan | Columnist and journalist @Guardian. Author of Crippled (out now) and Who Wants Normal? (2025) E: frances.ryan.freelance@guardian.co.uk | 49,618 |
| BenClaimant | Ben Claimant 💚 Join a Union | Activist & campaigner | Unite Community | DPAC | https://t.co/RHWGUC0nHn | e: imajsaclaimant@gmail.com | #IncreaseLegacyBenefits #CancelTheCut #20More4All | 43,182 |
| GHMansfield | Gregory Mansfield | Disabled Lawyer. Disability Rights and Disability Justice. Gregoryhmansfield at gmail. | 38,794 |
| 0Calamity | CrémantCommunarde🧡🌤 | Jane Heybroek. Personal acct. Buddhist. Barrister. Eco-socialist. @BThroughParty Mastodon: https://t.co/ya15RbW0oh. *looks around* I still blame that weasel | 38,393 |
| jacquep | Pascal Jacquemain 🇫🇷in🇬🇧 #BloodyMigrant | Daring to treat a bit of the UK like France since 1995.Also https://t.co/TKhtvSo2aI | 30,678 |
| Shrink_at_Large | Dr Jay Watts | Consultant clinical psychologist/ psychotherapist/ activist/ bluestocking. Former psychiatric patient. Future failed poet. ND. Will question ideology for cake. | 30,040 |
| johnpringdns | Disability News Service | John Pring: editor/founder of Disability News Service; author of Longcare Survivors: The Biography of a Care Scandal; disabled journalist | 26,374 |
| UnsungheroMark | MARK HUGHES STANDING UP FOR THE TERMINALLY ILL | I have terminal bone cancer sir Ranulph Fiennes climbed a mountain in my honour for my charity work with Marie Curie. Trying to do my bit to help the terminal💙 | 25,202 |
Top 10 accounts with highest friends count
| Username | Name | Bio | Followers count |
|---|---|---|---|
| jacquep | Pascal Jacquemain 🇫🇷in🇬🇧 #BloodyMigrant | Daring to treat a bit of the UK like France since 1995.Also https://t.co/TKhtvSo2aI | 32,628 |
| solange_lebourg | Solange 🇪🇺💚🤍💜 | Retired lawyer. Kindly One 😈, hoarding my rights 🦖. Fan of material reality, Enlightenment values and the rule of law. Follow back pro Europe - #FBPE | 20,490 |
| BeresfordPeter | Peter Beresford | service user activist,mental health, disability, welfare issues, committed to participation, UEA, Essex and Brunel University London, Co-chair Shaping Our Lives | 20,076 |
| rk70534 | Raimo Kangasniemi | A useless humanist with a love for art, astronomy, history, literature, science, human rights and social justice. I hate oppression. https://t.co/S8BzUeLNKZ | 19,211 |
| Normanjam671 | Sir Norman of Nowhere, KBE, CSE.🏴☠️ | Amateur irritant. Anarcho-Syndicalism is Democratic Socialism. Proud Anti-fascist. Diagnosed ME and FND. Politics and chickens. | 18,273 |
| Beth_Tastic | Beth 💙 | #SEND parent & advocate supporting families, working with schools/disability forums/health boards etc to help improve practices around disabilities. #GTTO | 17,372 |
| BenClaimant | Ben Claimant 💚 Join a Union | Activist & campaigner | Unite Community | DPAC | https://t.co/RHWGUC0nHn | e: imajsaclaimant@gmail.com | #IncreaseLegacyBenefits #CancelTheCut #20More4All | 16,360 |
| dsue1441_re | RedSue, Socialist NHSPay15 💙💙 | Never voted Tory in all my life. #EnoughIsEnough #WeRefuseToBePoor I want a more equal life for everyone. DM blocked | 14,163 |
| AlisonKMurray | Alison 💙 🇪🇺 🕷️#Maskateer #CleanEnergy | #BackTo60 #FullRestitution CONs stole our Pensions! #StopFundingHate #NHS 💖 #EU #Crypto ▶️@LochinvarLass https://t.co/akwQIiGRW3 Personal views only | 13,592 |
| TweetForTheMany | ℹ️ Not The Torygraph 💚 #SaveOurNHS #ScrapNHSBill | ⚕️Against the Outsourcing and Asset Stripping of Public Services ⚕️#FBNHS 😊 THREADS LINKED HERE ▶https://t.co/J71SGPEJNG… | 13,541 |
Most active users
| Username | Bio | Number of tweets |
|---|---|---|
| steffd62 | Love Ska Reggae Northern Soul,Labour born and bred! Fibro and ME Ban Palm oil https://t.co/gG2vXEoQ8s DMS | 183 |
| SueJonesSays | Public interest issues, policy, human rights & social sciences. Researcher & writer for: Politics & Insights (home site), @Welfare_Weekly, @SciscoMedia & others | 123 |
| RandolphTrent | No Colour! No Creed! No Religion! No Class! No Race! Just one Human Being on a big ball in Space! #Trentssongsforsurvivors! | 91 |
| vamroses | Born 1947 Socialist still fighting for a better world for us all. 🇵🇸☮️ | 60 |
| paulapeters2 | Disability Rights Activist, Chair, Bromley and Croydon Unite Community, Equalities Officer Bromley Trades Council Writer, Poet paulapeters71@mastodon.lol | 42 |
| AnitaBellows12 | - | 38 |
| blueannoyed | Trying to make the world a better place for all, Try it is very worthwhile | 35 |
| Elpgb1 | Socialist not centrist , I want what Corbyn wanted, real levelling up. Mother Grandmother and great grandmother. | 18 |
| 1kilroywashere | - | 16 |
| johnpringdns | John Pring: editor/founder of Disability News Service; author of Longcare Survivors: The Biography of a Care Scandal; disabled journalist | 16 |
Tweets per day
Top 10 tweets with highest Retweet count
| ID | Text | Retweet count |
|---|---|---|
| 1625460273732546561 | Benefit sanctions will continue under Labour as party 'reforms' Universal Credit https://t.co/SxF4cyulz0 @VoxPolitical @paulapeters2 @blueannoyed @LindaBurnip @SueJonesSays @vamroses @RandolphTrent @johnpringdns @AnitaBellows12 @BENEFITS_NEWS | 52 |
| 1627559647652548608 | Network Rail is building footbridges that are inaccessible to people who cannot climb steps https://t.co/5drWen3iRM bridges without ramps potentially breach the Equality Act say campaigners. From @johnpringdns | 47 |
| 1625109948051988484 | First, give @johnpringdns. He's done great work supporting #TEFL staff. Second, this ⬇️ is why we should *all* support the rail strikes. The attacks on rail workers are an attack on all of us - esp the most vulnerable. @bakerloormt @RMTLondon @RMTUnion https://t.co/B93mGQ8PBX | 27 |
| 1625561944663986186 | the move towards running more trains without a member of staff on board and an increase in unstaffed stations, as well as the need for many disabled passengers to book assistance before their journeys, could be breaching the Equality Act https://t.co/Rm2vgWMGqa via @johnpringdns | 24 |
| 1625437443037036547 | Exposing State violence towards disabled people. @johnpringdns and @imogendayx talk about resisting the anti-life violent bureaucracy of the State. https://t.co/0KOQhwIK9r | 21 |
| 1626589494496620546 | It's about time that equal access to so-called public transport was taken seriously and enforced & not left to individual & un-resourced disabled people to fight for. Watchdog takes Equality Act steps against government over rail access https://t.co/pYB6vqeCdO via @johnpringdns | 17 |
| 1625805035035672579 | @steffd62 @1kilroywashere @VoxPolitical @paulapeters2 @blueannoyed @LindaBurnip @SueJonesSays @vamroses @RandolphTrent @johnpringdns @BENEFITS_NEWS I find it terribly depressing when a disabled person says: 'I deserve my benefits, but other people don't because they buck the system', a system which is one of the harshest in the world, and which makes it very difficult to access any kind of benefits | 16 |
| 1625068473222152192 | "The equality watchdog has taken action under the Equality Act against both the Department for Transport (DfT) and the rail regulator over concerns that cuts and reforms to train services are making the network ever more inaccessible." https://t.co/EfLFA4SI7f via @johnpringdns | 15 |
| 1626539199041097735 | NEW from me 3000% Increase In Disallowed PIP Awards @GarageWUnite @johnpringdns @PolitlcsUK @mikecoulson48 @unitetheunion @The_TUC @Ekklesia_co_uk @TheDA_UK @UKLabour @jeremycorbyn @johnmcdonnellMP @Debbie_abrahams @GMB @gmlawcentre @GoodLawProject https://t.co/HpB2ty2TP5 | 14 |
| 1624356567918301184 | Can someone in the pilot areas whistleblow predominantly to much more important people than me like @johnpringdns bur also to me because am now on major 'psychocompulsion' watch to use Friedli and Stern's brill term for the misuse of psy ideas and CBT esp in welfare violence. TaX https://t.co/BUz7y4yEW6 | 14 |
Top 10 tweets with highest Like count
| ID | Text | Like count |
|---|---|---|
| 1627559647652548608 | Network Rail is building footbridges that are inaccessible to people who cannot climb steps https://t.co/5drWen3iRM bridges without ramps potentially breach the Equality Act say campaigners. From @johnpringdns | 97 |
| 1625561944663986186 | the move towards running more trains without a member of staff on board and an increase in unstaffed stations, as well as the need for many disabled passengers to book assistance before their journeys, could be breaching the Equality Act https://t.co/Rm2vgWMGqa via @johnpringdns | 43 |
| 1625109948051988484 | First, give @johnpringdns. He's done great work supporting #TEFL staff. Second, this ⬇️ is why we should *all* support the rail strikes. The attacks on rail workers are an attack on all of us - esp the most vulnerable. @bakerloormt @RMTLondon @RMTUnion https://t.co/B93mGQ8PBX | 41 |
| 1625805035035672579 | @steffd62 @1kilroywashere @VoxPolitical @paulapeters2 @blueannoyed @LindaBurnip @SueJonesSays @vamroses @RandolphTrent @johnpringdns @BENEFITS_NEWS I find it terribly depressing when a disabled person says: 'I deserve my benefits, but other people don't because they buck the system', a system which is one of the harshest in the world, and which makes it very difficult to access any kind of benefits | 33 |
| 1626589494496620546 | It's about time that equal access to so-called public transport was taken seriously and enforced & not left to individual & un-resourced disabled people to fight for. Watchdog takes Equality Act steps against government over rail access https://t.co/pYB6vqeCdO via @johnpringdns | 32 |
| 1626285931220041730 | Read about our research findings at: https://t.co/ykKwaqZSYy Many thanks to @johnpringdns for covering this issue. #parentcarerblame #pdaprofile #autism #pdaprofile #hiddendisability #DisabilityTwitter #DisabilityRights @PDAParenting @PDASociety | 28 |
| 1625460273732546561 | Benefit sanctions will continue under Labour as party 'reforms' Universal Credit https://t.co/SxF4cyulz0 @VoxPolitical @paulapeters2 @blueannoyed @LindaBurnip @SueJonesSays @vamroses @RandolphTrent @johnpringdns @AnitaBellows12 @BENEFITS_NEWS | 26 |
| 1626566481222705152 | @dwp @johnpringdns this is the very department that @RishiSunak says will look after the vulnerable,so why is it that terminally ill people who live longer than 12 months are penalised when claiming benefits some waiting up to 8 months TERMINAL MEANS TERMINAL Fast track all https://t.co/uboo7F4AlQ https://t.co/mLMAFW3hBl | 25 |
| 1624356567918301184 | Can someone in the pilot areas whistleblow predominantly to much more important people than me like @johnpringdns bur also to me because am now on major 'psychocompulsion' watch to use Friedli and Stern's brill term for the misuse of psy ideas and CBT esp in welfare violence. TaX https://t.co/BUz7y4yEW6 | 20 |
| 1625901366643249152 | @johnpringdns @vickyfoxcroft @stephenctimms @DavidLinden @MarshadeCordova I live in Bolton, everywhere I have been to has told me they're not allowed to help me with my PIP forms, however they can help with an appeal. I took 1 look at the form & very nearly threw it in the bin. It's only when a friend stepped in & helped me. Cuts cost lives | 20 |
Top 3 Languages Used In Tweets
Top 10 Hashtags used
| Hashtag | Count |
|---|---|
| #disability | 17 |
| #dwp | 9 |
| #disabled | 7 |
| #housing | 7 |
| #disabilitytwitter | 7 |
| #autism | 6 |
| #pdaprofile | 6 |
| #equalityact | 5 |
| #accessibletransport | 5 |
| #ticketoffices | 4 |
Top 10 Hashtags Used In Tweets
Top 10 mentions
| Mention | Count |
|---|---|
| @johnpringdns | 1308 |
| @lindaburnip | 687 |
| @benefits_news | 684 |
| @voxpolitical | 677 |
| @1kilroywashere | 675 |
| @blueannoyed | 662 |
| @anitabellows12 | 657 |
| @vamroses | 651 |
| @paulapeters2 | 645 |
| @randolphtrent | 613 |
Top 10 mentions
Wordcloud of Tweets
Emojis
Average number of emojis used per tweet
9
Emojis used in tweets
| Emoji | Count | Emoji Text |
|---|---|---|
| 👇 | 12 | backhand_index_pointing_down |
| 😡 | 11 | enraged_face |
| 👏🏼 | 10 | clapping_hands_medium-light_skin_tone |
| 😂 | 10 | face_with_tears_of_joy |
| ✊ | 6 | raised_fist |
| 👍 | 5 | thumbs_up |
| 🤔 | 4 | thinking_face |
| 🙏 | 4 | folded_hands |
| ❤️ | 4 | red_heart |
| 😢 | 4 | crying_face |
Emojis groups
| Emoji Group | Count |
|---|---|
| Smileys & Emotion | 65 |
| People & Body | 48 |
| Symbols | 5 |
| Objects | 3 |
| Flags | 1 |
| Travel & Places | 1 |