{"id":384,"date":"2018-09-28T13:52:03","date_gmt":"2018-09-28T13:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/utccismcc.utk.edu\/?p=384"},"modified":"2018-09-28T13:52:03","modified_gmt":"2018-09-28T13:52:03","slug":"kavanaughhearings-eclipses-more-than-2-million-tweets-in-24-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cci.utk.edu\/ric\/2018\/09\/28\/kavanaughhearings-eclipses-more-than-2-million-tweets-in-24-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"#KavanaughHearings eclipses more than 2 million tweets in 24 hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week we examined the <a href=\"https:\/\/utccismcc.utk.edu\/2018\/09\/20\/scotus-hearings-bring-resurgence-of-metoo-posts\/\">SCOTUS confirmation hearings<\/a> through a lens of the #MeToo movement with the accusations of sexual assault levied against nominee Brett Kavanaugh.<\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend, Senate Judicial Committee members came to terms with Dr. Christine Blasey Ford to testify regarding the allegations. For nearly 10 hours, members of the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2018\/09\/27\/takeaways-kavanaugh-hearing-so-far\/?utm_term=.8127dec3222d\"> committee questioned both Ford and Kavanaugh<\/a> separately on the topic.<\/p>\n<p>The hashtag #KavanaughHearings was used consistently across Twitter over the course of the day. We monitored the conversation in the Adam Brown Social Media Command Center. Below is a gallery of word clouds generated every hour of the hearings to show the evolution of the trending conversation on Twitter.<\/p>\n\n<p>The trend line below shows spikes in conversation by hour during the testimony. The majority of the posts came between the hours of 3 p.m. and 4 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_398\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-398\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-398 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/utccismcc.utk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/09\/Screen-Shot-2018-09-28-at-9.42.43-AM-1024x686.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"686\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-398\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A timeline of #KavanaughHearings reveals that the majority of the conversation occurred between 3 and 4 p.m.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week we examined the SCOTUS confirmation hearings through a lens of the #MeToo movement with the accusations of sexual assault levied against nominee Brett Kavanaugh. 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