What #BlackLivesMatter and #AllLivesMatter say on Twitter
Family of Nutsa Abash in Abkhazia, during The Soviet Union. Photo was taken from the following post about the history of black people in Abkhazia: https://abkhazworld.com/aw/blogs/1754-afro-abkhazians

What #BlackLivesMatter and #AllLivesMatter say on Twitter

That people who use two different hashtags — BlackLivesMatter (BLM) and AllLivesMatter (ALM)— use different languages and differ in their opinions is noticeable to anyone who has spent a single day on Twitter. But to see how they differ exactly, I examined their tweets with several R packages, but most extensively with tidytext and rtweet.

I have retrieved the tweets from June 27 to July 5th for ALM and from June 30 to July 1st for BLM; 25,132 and 86,922 in total, respectively, all in English.

For the start, let’s see what are the top 15 words used in each hashtag (Fig.1). Mostly there’s an overlap in word usage but differences are there, especially in word frequency. First, notice that ALM uses #blacklivesmatter hashtag, as it is a reaction to BLM movement. Authors of those tweets try to refer and talk to those who tweet with BLM hashtag. ALM hashtag contains more reference to RealDonaldTrump and #bluelivesmatter, while in BLM ‘support’,’movement’ and ‘justice’ are among top 15 words.
['Irakli Kavtaradze']
['Sentiment Analysis', 'R', 'Twitter', 'Dataviz']