The warfare of funny pictures on internet

How the users of TikTok reacted to the contents shared by Matteo Salvini in the first week of the activity on his official profile?

Post likes Post views Original content Trend format Against Salvini Pro-Salvini Profile followers 5K 0 10K 15K 20K 25K 30K 35K 40K 45K 50K 330K 165K 495K 660K 825K 990K 1000 1000 0 1000 1000 0 1000 1000 0 1000 1000 0 1000 1000 0 1000 1000 0 1000 1000 0 Commentlikes 1000 1000 12 Nov 2019 12 Nov 2019 13 Nov 2019 14 Nov 2019 15 Nov 2019 16 Nov 2019 18 Nov 2019 21 Nov 2019 0 Order of comments 50 40 30 20 10 1 Views: 132kLikes: 4638 Views: 159KLikes: 5047 Views: 479KLikes: 20K Views: 248KLikes: 9048 Views: 147KLikes: 4518 Views: 1MLikes: 37K Views: 102KLikes: 3448 Views: 318KLikes: 17K

The final part attempt to analyze the phenomenon of memification of music and video, as happened a few years ago on Vine. Although TikTok prohibits politics, it is interesting to analyze how an institutional figure (former Minister of the Interior) uses it in a controversial way, talking about this topic. Furthermore, it is interesting to analyse the usersā€™ reactions to this approach.

Main Findings

The views are always greater than the number of followers, reaching in some case a ration of twenty to one.

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A greater engagement was achieved by posting an original content (created by him) and therefore shareable by other people.

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Only 6% of the more voted comments openly supports Salvini. These comments are outnumbered by those that harshly criticize him.

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Data sources

Date of retrieval

21/11/2019