Detect Regulation Discussions around a Topic

This article Leverages Twitter Lists to showcase how Regulators are communicating around specific topics.

Leverage Twitter lists to drill down this query to posts from specific groups. By building separate workspaces for each group, you can set up analysis to compare the volume, sentiment, and Narratives across those groups. 

For example, there are preconfigured Twitter lists grouping posts from members of Congress and the Biden administration. 

For a parallel on the news side, experiment with adding keywords to your query such as “Congress” OR “congressional” OR “senator” OR “representative” OR “congressman” OR “congresswoman” OR “Biden administration”. 

In the case of our grocery prices query, let’s build two additional workspaces to compare grocery prices mentions from members of Congress versus the Biden administration:

Twitter Lists:

House

• Twitter_list:1658523844317937667 - members of congress
• Twitter_list:1661441803004903436 - party caucus 

Senate

• Twitter_list:1662100273869869061 - Senate Dems
• Twitter_list:1662100995676020736 - Senate GOP

White House

• Twitter_list:1658953647634481154 - deputies
• Twitter_list:1658953256385617931 - directors
• Twitter_list:1658590625267081216 - senior staff

Departments/Agencies

• Twitter_list:1658581270610292740 - deputy secretaries
• Twitter_list:1496511865001857032 - federal agencies
• Twitter_list:1658568325557899280 - cabinet 
• Twitter_list:1658569125713661987 - departments

Using the original query, we need to add the Twitter lists for members of congress and the party caucasus to our first regulation workspace. 

For our second workspace, we need to add all the Twitter lists for the White House and Departments/Agencies. 

In the workspace summaries, we can immediately compare that congressional mentions of grocery costs are “highly negative” and blamed on the Biden administration’s economic policies. 

In contrast, posts on grocery costs from the Biden administration were largely neutral or positive and focused on the administration’s efforts to lower other costs (prescription drugs) and pressure corporations. 

Comparing the volume of mentions over time, we can see that the Biden administration recently became more active in posting about grocery-related costs, after a few earlier posts around the May 14th peak. Meanwhile, members of Congress were actively posting about this issue as far back as early April, reaching their peak around May 14th, and declining recently as the administration has become increasingly active on the topic. 

Between these two workspaces, we can also identify key individuals and entities in government posting about grocery prices. On the congressional side, the most active posters include allies of the Biden administration — including Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Representative Don Beyer (D-VA) — in addition to Republicans Lance Gooden (R-TX), Representative Wesley Hunt (R-TX), and the GOP Majority Whip account. Meanwhile, the most active poster by far for the administration is the White House Council of Economic Advisers.

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