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The Tweet Delete of Congress: Congress and Deleted Posts on Twitter The University of Southern Mississippi The Aquila Digital Community Master's Theses Fall 12-2013 The Tweet Delete of Congress: Congress and Deleted Posts on Twitter Theresa Loraine Cardenas University of Southern Mississippi Follow this and additional works at: https://aquila.usm.edu/masters_theses Recommended Citation Cardenas, Theresa Loraine, "The Tweet Delete of Congress: Congress and Deleted Posts on Twitter" (2013). Master's Theses. 434. https://aquila.usm.edu/masters_theses/434 This Masters Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by The Aquila Digital Community. It has been accepted for inclusion in Master's Theses by an authorized administrator of The Aquila Digital Community. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The University of Southern Mississippi THE TWEET DELETE OF CONGRESS: CONGRESS AND DELETED POSTS ON TWITTER by Theresa Loraine Cardenas A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate School of the University of Southern Mississippi in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of,Arts Approved: December 2013 ABSTRACT THE TWEET DELETE OF CONGRESS: CONGRESS AND DELETED POSTS ON TWITTER by Theresa Loraine Cardenas December 2013 Since 2006, increasingly more politicians have joined, and are active on, social media networks, in order to reach out to constituents. However, politicians, such as Anthony Weiner, have started to find themselves in the middle of Twitter scandals and criticism, since their posts are openly available to the public. These ramifications may be leading politicians to delete their tweets, but thanks to the Sunlight Foundation and it's website Politwoops, deleted tweets by politicians are now archived and ripe for political research. This raises the question Which members of Congress are deleting tweets and why? Thus, I conduct the first known qualitative study on Congress and deleted tweets, to determine what members may be trying to delete. An empirical analysis on raw data, including 500 deleted tweets by Congress members, was used to discover which posts, and by which members, are deleted more often. I hypothesize that Congress members, specifically Republican Senators, are more likely to delete negative tweets, such as posts that are unprofessional, against their constituents' views, or contain controversial issues, in order to ensure public support and avoid backlash. ii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The writer would like to thank the thesis committee chair, Dr. Marija Bekafigo, and the other committee members, Dr. Kate Greene and Dr. Troy Gibson for their advice, support, and encouragement throughout the duration of this thesis process. They helped make sure this thesis would be the best that it could be. I would especially like to thank Dr. Marija Bekafigo for convincing me and having faith in me to write this thesis. Thank you. iii TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACT ..............................................................................................................................i i AC KNOWLEDGMENTS. ..................................................................................................... .ii i LIST OF TABLES................................ ...................................................................................v LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS .................. ................................................................................vi CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION .......................................................................................... 1 II . THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS ............................................................ .4 Congress, Social Media, and Twitter Congress, Twitter, and Constituents Congressional Scandals and Twitter Ill. RESEARCH QUESTIONS & HYPOTHESES.. ....................................22 IV. DATA AND METHOD. ...............................................................................26 V. RESUL TS....................... ..............................................................................31 VI . CONCLUSION ............................................................................................ 55 REFERENCES.. .................................................................................................................. 60 iv LIST OF TABLES Table 1. Nature of Deleted Tweets. .................................................................................... 31 2. Nature of The First 100 Deleted Tweets................................ ........................... 33 3. Nature of Deleted Tweets by PartY .................................................................... 36 4. Nature of the First 100 Deleted Tweets by PartY............................................ 38 5. Deleted Tweets by Congress Chamber.. .......................................................... 39 6. Members Who Deleted Tweets by Congress Chamber...... .......................... 40 7. Total Deleted Tweets by PartY ............................................................................ 41 8. Members Who Deleted Tweets by PartY .......................................................... 42 9. Total Deleted Tweets by Tenure .........................................................................43 10. Members Who Deleted Tweets by Tenure............................. .......................... 44 11 . Total Deleted Tweets by Gender........................................................................ 45 12. Members Who Deleted Tweets by Gender.......... ............................................ 46 13. Total Deleted Tweets by Type of Tweet ........................................................... 48 14. Deleted Tweets Containing URL Links by PartY ............................................. 48 15. Total First 100 Deleted Tweets by Type ........................................................... so 16. First 100 Deleted Tweets Containing URL Links by PartY.................. .......... so 17. First 100 Deleted Retweets by PartY ................................................................. 51 18. Time Duration of Deleted Tweets ....................................................................... 52 19. Time Duration of Deleted Tweets by Nature of Tweet. .................................. 53 v LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Figure 1. Nature of Deleted Tweets .................................................................................. 32 2. Nature of the First 100 Deleted Tweets ............................................................ 34 3. Nature of Deleted Tweets by PartY .................................................................... 36 4. Nature of First 100 Deleted Tweets by PartY............... .................................... 38 5. Deleted Tweets by Gender.............. .................................................................... 45 6. Members of Deleted Tweets by Gender........................................................... 4 7 7. Time Duration of Deleted Tweets by Nature of Tweet................................... 54 vi 1 CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION The 2012 presidential election broke the record for the most tweeted about event in United States political history with more than 31 million tweets in one night (Bellenger, 2012). However, it was not just the general public that was tweet happy on the government's big day. During the past decade, social media sites, such as Twitter and Facebook, have increasingly been used for political interaction after politicians flocked to Facebook during the 2006 national elections. That same year Twitter was launched and quickly became a political powerhouse resulting in political figures, such as Barack Obama, John McCain, and Sarah Palin, being among the top 50 trending topics on Twitter (Ladhani, 2010, p. 43). Increasingly more and more politicians are joining social media networks, particularly Twitter. A recent study by Almacy, Hauptman, and Newbert (2012) found that members of Parliament and Congress who used Twitter rose from 31 % in 2010 to 53% in 2011 . By January 2013, all1 00 members of the United States Senate and 398 members of the House of Representatives had joined the world of Twitter (Choney, 2013). Members of Congress originally embraced social media as a way to control their messages and promote legislative goals and accomplishments themselves rather than leaving it up to the media. As a result, social media has become an important communication tool used to influence constituents and gain public support by making it easier for Congress to reach out and represent the public. Republican House Representative Bob Latta has previously stated about 2 social media networks, "Social networking tools have given us a 2.0 democracy; letting people participate in the legislative process at all times and giving members of Congress the instant ability to connect and engage with constituents" (as cited in Almacy, Hauptman, & Newbert, 2012, p.12). Additionally, Twitter provides constituents, who have also increasingly joined, with the opportunity to voice their concerns and engage government representatives in a more direct manner. In just two years there was almost a 600% increase in constituents' use of Twitter to reach lawmakers, from only 7% to 41 % (Aimacy et al., 2012, p.12). However, posts on social media sites can have serious ramifications for congressional members. Since information posted on social media sites are open to the public and can lead to unwanted reactions by constituents, Congress must be careful with what information they freely share with the public. In just the past five years, many Congress members
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