The increasing frequency of president donald trump’s social communications: Is there a limit?

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Submitted: July 4, 2020
Published: Jul 28, 2020
DOI: 10.17352/tcsit.000016
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Social messaging, Trump, Volume

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Cynthia Whissell*
Psychology Department, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada

Abstract

This brief article offers a regression formula which accurately predicts Trump’s messaging rate as president (R=.96, p<.001). Rate is a quadratic function of months in office, with Republican approval rating entering the formula with a negative weight. The function has no mathematical limit, but real-life constraints associated with time available for messaging are discussed and exemplified, and a maximum messaging rate (150 messages daily, in an ongoing pattern) is suggested.

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Whissell, C. (2020). The increasing frequency of president donald trump’s social communications: Is there a limit?. Trends in Computer Science and Information Technology, 5(1), 034–036. https://doi.org/10.17352/tcsit.000016
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