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On the Records: Mackowiak vs. NotMackowiak Word Clouds

#tcot vs. takemeseriously.

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Mack Mackoviak's tweets since September.
Credit: Matt Stiles

Reeve Hamilton writes this morning about "Instapundit" Matt Mackowiak, a former press aide to Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison who has attacked Gov. Rick Perry on Twitter and, in the process, drawn the mockery of an anonymous critic called @NotMackowiak.

We downloaded their tweets in recent months and converted them to word clouds.

 

Here is @NotMackowiak:

You, too, can download tweets with this Python module.

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