Are Tea Parties dominating Twitter?

There’s some debate Wednesday about whether or not conservatives’ so-called “Tea Parties” are a dominant meme or not on Twitter.

Daily Kos’s “DemFromCT” posted the following word cloud today, showing the “teaparty” tag as a relatively small element in a Twitter word cloud, far behind “rainy,” “nyc,” “dominos,” and “sexting.”

The cloud led the site’s eponymous leader, Markos Moulitsas, to tweet:

Conservatives sure dominate Twitter! http://bit.ly/3O1GMT

Those claims but up against the site’s “Trending Topics” that refresh throughout the day. Check out the stream of tweets with “teaparty” tags here.

And while the universe of Tweets may be somewhat nebulous and difficult to characterize, the political tweets which this blog follows have had a lot to say about today’s Tea Parties.

For the sake of transparency, you can see who I follow on Twitter here.