Which Gets Retweeted More Often: #JustinBieber or #TeaParty?

Earlier in this chapter, we made the reasonable conjecture that tweets that are retweeted with high frequency are likely to be more influential and more informative or editorial in nature than ones that are not. Tweets such as “Eating a pretzel” and “Aliens have just landed on the White House front lawn; we are all going to die! #fail #apocalypse” being extreme examples of content that is fairly unlikely and likely to be retweeted, respectively. How does #TeaParty compare to #JustinBieber for retweets? Analyzing @mentions from the working set of search results again produces interesting results. Truncated results showing which users have retweeted #TeaParty and #JustinBieber most ....5-55-6