{"id":10824,"date":"2017-05-13T17:20:49","date_gmt":"2017-05-13T23:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/impeach_bush_blog\/?p=10824"},"modified":"2017-05-28T17:49:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-28T23:49:00","slug":"twitter-blows-up-with-impeach-mentions-after-comey-firing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/twitter-blows-up-with-impeach-mentions-after-comey-firing\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Blows Up With \u2018Impeach\u2019 Mentions After Comey Firing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style='float: left; margin: 0px 15px 15px 0px; width: 250px;' src=\"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/impeach13.jpg\" data-wp-pid=\"11579\" alt=\"impeach trump\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"7\" \/><b>Vocativ<\/b> &#8211; President Donald Trump\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vocativ.com\/428379\/trump-comey-fired-fbi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">surprise firing<\/a> of former FBI Director James Comey on Tuesday night has a lot of people on Twitter talking about dictatorships, democracy and impeachment.<\/p>\n<p>Mentions of \u201cTrump\u201d and the word \u201cdictator\u201d or \u201cdemocracy\u201d spiked in the hours immediately following the news of Comey\u2019s firing. Between 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, there were 2,577 tweets containing the word \u201cdictator\u201d and 3,342 tweets containing the word \u201cdemocracy.\u201d That\u2019s a 1,443 percent and 925 percent increase from such mentions, respectively, during that same hour a week before.<\/p>\n<p>The word \u201cimpeach\u201d was tweeted 64,329 times between Tuesday at 5 p.m. EDT and Wednesday at 6 a.m. EDT \u2014 the 12 hours following the announcement of Comey\u2019s dismissal \u2014 and \u201cTrump\u201d or \u201cComey\u201d were included in 25,744 of those tweets. Posts featuring\u00a0\u201cresign\u201d with \u201cTrump\u201d or \u201cComey\u201d was tweeted 15,639 times during\u00a0that time period.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\"><\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">FUN FACT: President Nixon never fired the Director of the FBI <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FBIDirector?src=hash\">#FBIDirector<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/notNixonian?src=hash\">#notNixonian<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PatArKOZlk\">pic.twitter.com\/PatArKOZlk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RichardNixonLibrary (@NixonLibrary) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NixonLibrary\/status\/862083605081862145\">May 9, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nThere were also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vocativ.com\/428408\/trump-fires-fbi-director-comey-reminds-everyone-of-nixon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">many comparisons<\/a> to former President Richard Nixon, who had the special prosecutor investigating him fired. (Though, as the Nixon Presidential Library <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NixonLibrary\/status\/862083605081862145\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">helpfully tweeted<\/a>, Nixon did not fire the director of the FBI.) There were 75,387 mentions of \u201cNixon\u201d and \u201cTrump\u201d covering the 12 hours after Comey was fired.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 140%; font-weight: 500;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vocativ.com\/428491\/impeach-democracy-dictator-twitter-comey-trump\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vocativ &#8211; President Donald Trump\u2019s surprise firing of former FBI Director James Comey on Tuesday night has a lot of people on Twitter talking about dictatorships, democracy and impeachment. Mentions of \u201cTrump\u201d and the word \u201cdictator\u201d or \u201cdemocracy\u201d spiked in the hours immediately following the news of Comey\u2019s firing. Between 8 p.m. and 9 p.m&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2312,"featured_media":11579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[125,124,76,123,107,127,126,106,105,77],"class_list":["post-10824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-impeachment-news","tag-calltoaction","tag-dumptrump","tag-impeach","tag-impeachtrump","tag-muslimban","tag-nofascistusa","tag-potus","tag-resist","tag-theresistance","tag-trump"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Twitter Blows Up With \u2018Impeach\u2019 Mentions After Comey Firing &#8226; 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