Tweets Analysis - Keyword: @scalawagmag
Overview
Total number of tweets analysed
178
Earliest tweet was on
2023-02-10
Latest tweet was on
2023-02-21
Tweets covering
10 days
Average age of authors' accounts
9 years
Summarization
Valentine's Day is the perfect time to discuss intersectional topics such as the Tory Lanez trial, abolishing carcerality, misogyny, gender, and police reform. Writers @DaShaunLH & @elizabethweill have written pieces in @scalawagmag on this and various other topics such as Ukrainian-Russian war, Black Queer Rising, abortion, Atlanta, and rap scapegoating. Additionally, @scalawagmag is a great source for donations and subscriptions, with a focus on love and liberation.
Topic Modeling
- Abolition of Carcerality, Misogynoir, and Gender
- Rom-Com Genre/Copaganda
- Supporting Publications
- Valentine’s Day
- Longreads Top 5
Emotional Analysis
The emotions expressed in these tweets are primarily positive, focusing on topics such as justice, liberation, love, and commitment. There is also a sense of sadness, particularly in regards to the recent Tory Lanez trial and the news about Catapult Story. The overall tone is one of hope and support for the publications mentioned, as well as for the people featured in the articles. There is also a sense of admiration for the work being done by the authors, editors, and correspondents mentioned in the tweets.
Trend Analysis
- Abolition of carcerality, misogynoir and gender
- Valentine's Day celebration and copaganda
- Ukraine-Russia War and Black Queer Rising
- Longreads Top 5 features
- Gen Z's influence on abortion
Types of Tweets
Number of Retweets
129
Percentage of total tweets
72%
Number of Original tweets
22
Percentage of total tweets
12%
Number of tweets that contain Mentions
178
Percentage of total tweets
100%
Number of tweets that were Replies
23
Percentage of total tweets
12%
Number of tweets that were Quotes
5
Percentage of total tweets
2%
Number of tweets that contain Hashtags
19
Percentage of total tweets
10%
Top 5 devices used to tweet
Source | Count |
---|---|
Twitter for iPhone | 80 |
Twitter Web App | 69 |
Twitter for Android | 19 |
Buffer | 3 |
TweetDeck | 2 |
What devices were used to tweet

Top 10 accounts with highest followers count
Username | Name | Bio | Followers count |
---|---|---|---|
Longreads | Longreads | Sharing and publishing the best longform stories since 2009. An @automattic publication and the sister site of @Atavist. @longreads@mastodon.world | 291,459 |
ElectricLit | Electric Literature | Reading into everything. | 269,921 |
tressiemcphd | Tressie McMillan Cottom | @unc professor & @nytimes columnist. I write to change your mind for good. avi 📸: @photoninja357 All inquiries: @doriankarchmar w/ @wme | 235,289 |
theappeal | The Appeal | We are a worker-led news outlet dedicated to exposing how the U.S. criminal legal system fails to keep people safe and perpetuates harm. | 125,110 |
FeministPress | Feminist Press | Creating a world where everyone recognizes themselves in a book. | 69,752 |
DaShaunLH | da’shaun | they/them | ungendered || editor-at-large @scalawagmag || 1/3 @ItsInTheMiddle | 1/5 @unsolicitedftb || award-winning author: Belly of the Beast || rep’d by @shabnamsheulee | 63,218 |
TheTakeaway | The Takeaway 🎙 | A fresh alternative on the American conversation. Hosted by @MHarrisPerry. From @WNYC, @PRX & @GBH. Call in at 1-877-8-MYTAKE. | 42,690 |
natalieweiner | Natalie Weiner | prop me up beside the jukebox if i die / https://t.co/ou4ScEZqug / she/her / natalie.l.weiner@gmail.com | 33,203 |
tamisawyer | Tami Sawyer | Retired Commissioner | Wonk | Southern Black Woman | #takeemdown901 | Seen on @Netflix's Who We Are | Gladys & Andy’s daughter | Tweets Represent No One But Me | 31,589 |
oxfordamerican | Oxford American | The Oxford American is a national magazine dedicated to featuring the very best in Southern writing while documenting the complexity and vitality of the South. | 26,529 |
Top 10 accounts with highest friends count
Username | Name | Bio | Followers count |
---|---|---|---|
Longreads | Longreads | Sharing and publishing the best longform stories since 2009. An @automattic publication and the sister site of @Atavist. @longreads@mastodon.world | 10,468 |
tamisawyer | Tami Sawyer | Retired Commissioner | Wonk | Southern Black Woman | #takeemdown901 | Seen on @Netflix's Who We Are | Gladys & Andy’s daughter | Tweets Represent No One But Me | 7,799 |
jackjohnsoniv7 | Jack Johnson IV | they/them || 🏳️🌈|| | 6,739 |
mediatwit | Mark Glaser | Advisor + Consultant supporting local news for @Knightfdn, @NMLocalNews, founder of @MediaShiftorg, newish New Mexican | 5,248 |
GrownRoom | Old Woman Seeking Justice 🐝🐝🐷🐝🐝 | Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss. It’s a big club & you ain’t in it. She/her #GeneralStrike #M4A #DefundThePolice #AbolishICE #BlackLivesMatter #2A | 5,160 |
aparnamuk | Aparna Mukherjee 💢 Mastadon: aparna@journa.host | Incoming @ResolvePhilly CPO | Priors @JSKStanford @FUSECorps @NYTimes @Bloomberg @WSJ @McKinsey @AP |🎓@Bagehots @Columbia @BrynMawrCollege + Cal🐻 | 5,140 |
BookishMagpie | Maureen (mastodon: @BookishMagpie@bookwor.ms) | Book reviewer,tea guzzler,American + @BritbyDescent (English mother) but I reject unfair path to British citizenship. Also @ViewFromEngland | 5,140 |
ebonyabsolutely | An Eb Grows In Brooklyn ✨️ | Type B ENFP perhaps THE eldest millennial ♌ Service @ProChoiceCA @indyshakes @StonewallDems Alum @UCONN @TCSYale @LAAAWPPI @EmergeCA @theaabli | 5,004 |
HollyEvanMarie | Pumpkin Spice Depression (Holly) | abd @amstudies. abolitionist. queer as fuck. #actuallyautistic 2021 LARB Workshop Fellow. Words @teenvogue @jacobin @electriclit @lithub @avidly she/they | 5,000 |
filth_filler | troy farah dot com | what doesn't kill us makes our existence inevitable science + health journalist @salon podcasts: @narcocast @kafkakhole tfarah✰https://t.co/kLdvlT8KAr // he/him https://t.co/tumWLvnkAJ | 4,996 |
Most active users
Username | Bio | Number of tweets |
---|---|---|
julia_doughty | West Coast & Southern Appalachian roots. Listens. Reads. Writes. Imagines. she/her. Married. | 28 |
iolabhinton | ed @scalawagmag👭 @jrenevolves she/her/alumna: @UNC and @NCSSMGood Lord willing and the creek don't rise. | 12 |
_poeticplasdick | That Nigga. A real rap Nigga poet. Ya kids favorite teacher. He/They. God sent me to piss the world off. I only fear Jah. | 4 |
elizabethweill | Reporter @theappeal. Bylines: New York Focus, The Nation, Truthout. Vaccinated. she/her. Tips: elizabeth@theappeal.org | 3 |
BeingOfErrth | 😷Artist. Musician. Producer. Boycott all MSM & politicians. Knowledge is power. Anti racist, anti fascist. Up North. #GeneralStrike #UnionMember He, him. | 3 |
AnkhDeLillo | writer + organizer ✖️ out here ✖️ essays: @scalawagmag @sftpmag @labornotes ✖️ poems: @TinderboxPoetry @puertomag @BreakwaterRev @ANMLY_LIT @platypuspress, etc. | 3 |
banannaomi | 26. spoonie/ND + Disabled/chronically ill (ME+). antifascist. fat is glorious. they/them & sometimes she/her. 🛡 | 3 |
DaShaunLH | ungendered || editor-at-large @scalawagmag || 1/3 @ItsInTheMiddle | 1/5 @unsolicitedftb || award-winning author: Belly of the Beast || rep’d by @shabnamsheulee | 3 |
Longreads | Sharing and publishing the best longform stories since 2009. An @automattic publication and the sister site of @Atavist. @longreads@mastodon.world | 3 |
bdwlecteur | I don't take naps; they take me. | 2 |
Tweets per day

Top 10 tweets with highest Retweet count
ID | Text | Retweet count |
---|---|---|
1625554576714698768 | this valentine’s day, for @scalawagmag’s Pop Justice, i used the recent tory lanez trial to discuss IPV and why the abolition of carcerality, misogynoir, and gender is a necessity. https://t.co/REms4o2yyG | 114 |
1624514877279678466 | "I was following Toni Morrison's advice where she said if the book hasn't been written, write it—and I wrote it." Author @DaShaunLH talks with @keaux_ about their debut book BELLY OF THE BEAST via @scalawagmag https://t.co/UiLH9dmR2s | 22 |
1625972827747745818 | "Abolition is a practice and a commitment. It's not reducible to slogans like "defund the police" and liberal talking points. Total abolition requires revolution." — @DaShaunLH in @scalawagmag Abolition. Can't Wait. https://t.co/ey3m1oz5TZ | 14 |
1626582493326610433 | TODAY 📻: #UkraineRussiaWar #BlackQueerRising ~Correspondent @FT @ChristopherJM & @nytimes Moscow bureau chief @antontroian ~@InsightOlena, Head of Insight Ukraine ~ Da'Shaun L. Harrison, editor-at-large of @scalawagmag ~@JessicaWilsonRD, author of "It’s Always Been Ours" https://t.co/qnAkP3AGKa | 12 |
1625532875830603779 | If you haven't subscribed to @scalawagmag's newsletter, today would be the perfect day. I adore how @iolabhinton talks and lives the tenants of love and liberation. https://t.co/HHwhoDeae3 | 11 |
1626028621256343552 | your valentine's day reminder that copaganda is bad even when packaged in a romcom, feat @elizabethweill & @scalawagmag https://t.co/salTs2EoFO | 10 |
1625559983461961741 | This Valentine's Day, @elizabethweill is sick of the rom-com genre's favorite copaganda trope: The "rom-cop" character—usually a white, lovable goofball designed to signify respectability and trustworthiness. (Published w/ @scalawagmag) https://t.co/IKOAc7nzoc | 9 |
1626783677576364032 | .@Longreads has featured my reporting on Atlanta in their Editors’ Picks this week—really grateful to them for the platform and these kind words! Read the full story over at @scalawagmag: https://t.co/XiWq1BKVc8 https://t.co/HwiULUFzxc | 8 |
1625523651377340419 | In honor of Valentine's Day, I took a look at the rom-coms that try to make us fall in love with the police. For @scalawagmag @theappeal with editor @keaux_ https://t.co/Jexkbe0McB | 6 |
1625881186101866496 | "There is nothing romantic about the police state. And yet, in some of the biggest hits of the rom-com world, white cops are the underdogs, just looking for the right person to love who loves them back." Read @elizabethweill (co-pub w/ @scalawagmag). https://t.co/IKOAc7nzoc | 6 |
Top 10 tweets with highest Like count
ID | Text | Like count |
---|---|---|
1625554576714698768 | this valentine’s day, for @scalawagmag’s Pop Justice, i used the recent tory lanez trial to discuss IPV and why the abolition of carcerality, misogynoir, and gender is a necessity. https://t.co/REms4o2yyG | 290 |
1624514877279678466 | "I was following Toni Morrison's advice where she said if the book hasn't been written, write it—and I wrote it." Author @DaShaunLH talks with @keaux_ about their debut book BELLY OF THE BEAST via @scalawagmag https://t.co/UiLH9dmR2s | 117 |
1626582493326610433 | TODAY 📻: #UkraineRussiaWar #BlackQueerRising ~Correspondent @FT @ChristopherJM & @nytimes Moscow bureau chief @antontroian ~@InsightOlena, Head of Insight Ukraine ~ Da'Shaun L. Harrison, editor-at-large of @scalawagmag ~@JessicaWilsonRD, author of "It’s Always Been Ours" https://t.co/qnAkP3AGKa | 43 |
1625523651377340419 | In honor of Valentine's Day, I took a look at the rom-coms that try to make us fall in love with the police. For @scalawagmag @theappeal with editor @keaux_ https://t.co/Jexkbe0McB | 33 |
1625972827747745818 | "Abolition is a practice and a commitment. It's not reducible to slogans like "defund the police" and liberal talking points. Total abolition requires revolution." — @DaShaunLH in @scalawagmag Abolition. Can't Wait. https://t.co/ey3m1oz5TZ | 28 |
1625532875830603779 | If you haven't subscribed to @scalawagmag's newsletter, today would be the perfect day. I adore how @iolabhinton talks and lives the tenants of love and liberation. https://t.co/HHwhoDeae3 | 28 |
1626028621256343552 | your valentine's day reminder that copaganda is bad even when packaged in a romcom, feat @elizabethweill & @scalawagmag https://t.co/salTs2EoFO | 25 |
1625587385235824652 | The news about @CatapultStory is incredibly sad. I want to financially support the publications I care about. Today I supported @ElectricLit and @scalawagmag in addition to my subscription to @oxfordamerican. Not sure how helpful it is, but maybe consider doing the same. | 15 |
1626615677384814592 | The truth behind the term “burnout.” Rap scapegoating. Flowers for an aging icon. The beauty of hidden wildlife. And history’s forgotten children. This week’s #LongreadsTop5 features @JewishCurrents @scalawagmag @espn @emergence_zine & @aeonmag: https://t.co/oJBYQEy4kA | 13 |
1626586516171689985 | "Beneath these two trends—cultural diffusion and political isolation—there’s YSL’s Atlanta, a place built by the Black working class and urban poor in the shadow of state abandonment. " #longreads @scalawagmag https://t.co/jdkidP0MDm | 13 |
Top 3 Languages Used In Tweets

Top 10 Hashtags used
Hashtag | Count |
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#stopcopcity | 5 |
#blackhistorymonth | 4 |
#longreadstop5 | 3 |
#angola3 | 2 |
#gapol | 2 |
#atlanta | 2 |
#longreads | 2 |
#ukrainerussiawar | 2 |
#blackqueerrising | 2 |
#stopcopcityread | 1 |
Top 10 Hashtags Used In Tweets

Top 10 mentions
Mention | Count |
---|---|
@scalawagmag | 179 |
@dashaunlh | 14 |
@elizabethweill | 11 |
@longreads | 8 |
@theappeal | 8 |
@ft | 7 |
@christopherjm | 7 |
@nytimes | 7 |
@antontroian | 7 |
@insightolena | 7 |
Top 10 mentions

Wordcloud of Tweets

Emojis
Average number of emojis used per tweet
11
Emojis used in tweets
Emoji | Count | Emoji Text |
---|---|---|
🤩 | 6 | star-struck |
👏 | 3 | clapping_hands |
🖤 | 3 | black_heart |
📻 | 2 | radio |
😂 | 1 | face_with_tears_of_joy |
😭 | 1 | loudly_crying_face |
💜 | 1 | purple_heart |
😬 | 1 | grimacing_face |
💙 | 1 | blue_heart |
💝 | 1 | heart_with_ribbon |
Emojis groups
Emoji Group | Count |
---|---|
Smileys & Emotion | 16 |
People & Body | 3 |
Objects | 2 |