TGIF Analysis
Author: Emre Okcular
Date Created: June 20st 2021
Have you ever wonder which weekend is better than the others ? Indeed we always thankful for the friday but is it true that we wait some weekends more than the others ? Might be a seasonal trend about our weekend expectations ? Any difference between locations ? How did the trend of positive and negative thoughts about the weekends change over a year ?
To answer all that questions, tweets from the twitter account @craigweekend collected and analyzed.
This bot account tweets the same video of Daniel Craig announces The Weekend. It tweets all the tweets in Friday afternoon Pacific Time.
First lets collect all the tweets which are not a reply or retweet with Tweepy API.
Below you can see the dataset that is scraped.
| Â | id | created | favorite | retweeted | text |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 1395879326399156225 | 2021-05-21 23:09:00 | 214676 | 40972 | https://t.co/2SkLzdr2pH |
| 1 | 1393340094602366976 | 2021-05-14 22:59:00 | 202994 | 37604 | https://t.co/7cuUpCvfMx |
| 2 | 1390809419538128896 | 2021-05-07 23:23:00 | 163499 | 33795 | https://t.co/hHeaj0b7Xq |
| 3 | 1388273710918881280 | 2021-04-30 23:27:00 | 155688 | 31437 | https://t.co/zQSF0EQPLg |
| 4 | 1385729697783312386 | 2021-04-23 22:58:00 | 118392 | 28595 | https://t.co/tfoCb4VxJc |
The basic visualization for retweet and favorite counts looks like below. It is clear that the account became viral in January 2021 and gained followers. There is a dramatic decrease in first weekend of February. Finally, the expectation for the weekends decreased from February to May.
Now, lets take a look at replies for each tweet.
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