social-psycho analyses
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Socio-Psycho Analyses
The Use of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) In Key Opinion Leader Identification
Open-source intelligence (OSINT) is intelligence collected from publicly available sources. In the intelligence community (IC), the term "open" refers to overt, publicly available sources (as opposed to covert or clandestine sources); it is not related to open-source software or public intelligence.
OSINT
As Bright As The White House Is, It Is Still The Most Opaque Place On Earth
This Iconic Building is a Symbolic Representation of Many Governmental Voices
But Who's Voice Is It?
There are Many Social Channels Through which Voices Speak
FOLLOWERS
89 M
While All Channels Represent The White House, Which One(s) Truly Reflect The
Man… Donald J. Trump
While All Channels Represent The White House, Which One(s) Truly Reflect The
Man… Donald J. Trump
One Such Channel Is Twitter’s @RealDonaldTrump
One Such Channel Is Twitter’s @RealDonaldTrump
FOLLOWERS
23.9M
But Does This Channel Represent The Real Voice of Donal Trump?
Donald J. Trump (actual)
Somebody Else (cutout)
But Does This Channel Represent The Real Voice of Donal Trump?
Donald J. Trump (actual)
Somebody Else (cutout)
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There is substantial photographic evidence that Donald J. Trump uses an Android-based phone.
There is substantial photographic evidence that Donald J. Trump uses an Android-based phone.
There are two different platforms tweeting, Android and IOS (iPhone, iPad). The Android tweets early in the morning, the IOS tweets later. The Android does not include links and pictures, but IOS does.
Android PeakTweet Period
IOS PeakTweet Period
Each platform uses different kinds of words. Android does not significantly use hashtags (#) and times (3pm, 7 pm, etc.), while IOS does.
Words Express Fundamental Emotions
NRC Word-Emotion Association Lexicon useful for language sentiment analysis. The NRC Emotion Lexicon is a list of English words and their associations with eight basic emotions (anger, fear, anticipation, trust, surprise, sadness, joy, and disgust) and two sentiments (negative and positive).
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The Android platform expresses more negative words that are emotionally distressed. While the IOS platform projects significantly more positive words that are centered in happiness.
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Using Three Socio-Psycho Categories (sentiment, emotion, structure), there is significant indication that Android and IOS tweets are from Two Different Personas (persons). But Who?
Profile A
Profile B
Tweets are progressively getting more negative over time. Trump tweets appear contribute the most to this trend.
People naturally retweet and like the more negative tweets from Trump.
Some words (driving emotions) are used only in specific phase of the presidential process.
Summary
Some Insights• Donald J. Trump uses an Android-
based phone to conduct his tweeting
• There are two distinct tweeter personas present in the @realdonaldtrump twitter account, one Android-based (Trump Actual) and the other IOS-based (A Cutout)
• Trump Actual tweets are between 4:30 AM and 10:30 AM
• Trump Actual tweets are more negative in nature, reflecting emotionally distressed words
Future OSINT Research: Who is the Cutout?
Donald J. Trump (actual)
Somebody Else (cutout)
@DanScavino
