In this reactive Shiny App(https://achilles1019.shinyapps.io/achilles/), we can see the recent trend of national leaders’ hashtags on Twitter clearly.
For the first part, we can see the number of tweets that contain each hashtag. For #JoeBiden, #XiJingping, and #BorisJonson, they’ve been talked about a lot lately. The number of #BorrisJonson ranked first, which is over 5000.
Among them, #JoeBiden has been discussed the most in these two days. As can be seen from the relevant Secondary hashtag, the related topics recently involved include # US and #vaccinated.
#XiJingping owns a stable but relatively large amount of discussions. The heat of #BorisJonson reached a high on May 12 but rapidly decreased in the following days. And the highly related tag with #BorisJonson is #nhs and #queenspeech.
#VladimirPutin was less discussed, but the original tweets weighed 56.91% proportion in all the tweets with tags. It seems that Twitter users prefer to talk about their own opinions about Putin rather than follow others.
As the ending part, I try to show the views of users who might be active and like reading and collecting other’s opinions on Twitter. Those users are the ones who have liked most tweets and posted tweets with related hashtags. Their opinion might reflect the mind of current-event followers on the Twitter platform. For example, someone who has liked 140,4303 tweets wrote :
“#China sees a world in chaos as an opportunity in its struggle with the West . #Mao’s old mottos about mayhem still resonate with #Chinese leaders, and with the #WuhanVirus pandemic still raging #XiJinping sees a situation to be fully exploited to China’s advantages.”
