Table 1. Top 12 most narratively dominant 1-grams for Trump-matching tweets for an example three day period.
The sharp rise of the Russian bounties for Taliban soldiers to kill US troops, along with the fall of other stories, gives an example of a microscopic detail of story turbulence we aim to quantify macroscopically.
| Rank | 2020/06/25 | 2020/06/26 | 2020/06/27 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | coronavirus | pandemic | bounties |
| 2 | Biden | bounties | bounty |
| 3 | pandemic | coronavirus | soldiers |
| 4 | testing | Biden | militants |
| 5 | lobster | militants | Russia |
| 6 | Matter | hiring | kill |
| 7 | statues | cases | briefed |
| 8 | virus | testing | Afghanistan |
| 9 | cases | virus | intelligence |
| 10 | ad | Statues | Taliban |
| 11 | fishing | bounty | troops |
| 12 | ChinaVirus | Care | pandemic |