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Chris Cillizza's Twitter Ratio is so bad, we're not sure his account can survive

2025-04-28 03:32:20admin

It's the most powerful, questionably scientific tool the internet has ever developed. It can make or break a person's entire career on Weird Twitter and small areas of the internet only dorks care about.

They call it the Ratio, and it's coming for CNN political pundit Chris Cillizza.

The term, which became popular in early 2017, measures a tweet's success (or more accurately its failure) based on the number of replies it gets compared to the number of responses. The higher the Ratio, the worse the tweet is estimated to be. For a long time, Cillizza, a pundit who has mastered the art of the bad take, was accused of having one of the highest Ratios on the political internet and some of the least popular tweets.

Now we've got the data to prove it.

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Cloudera Fast Forward Labs is an "artificial intelligence lab based in Brooklyn that tackles hard problems like natural language understanding, probabilistic programming and who is the worst on Twitter." Previously, Fast Forward discovered that Paul Ryan had the highest Twitter Ratio of the seven major politicians they studied—a fact that brought tears of joy to some tired #Resistance eyes.

We had the lab analyze Chris Cillizza's tweets and compare them to pundits with similarly sized followings across the political spectrum: Joy Reid, David Frum, Meghan McCain, Matthew Yglesias, Ana Navarro, Judge Jeanine Pirro, and Jonathan Chait. We also threw in Trump, who's more of a pundit than he is a President, and Cher, the people's president. Here's what they found.

Chris Cillizza and Ana Navarro had two of the most hated tweets. Taking a look at the text of the tweets, you can easily understand why.

Cillizza's Ratio here is 12.77. A bad Ratio is considered to be anything greater than 2:1, so...

Navarro's miraculously managed to be somehow worse, with a Ratio of 25.27.

Still, the tool only tells part of the story because it only catches tweets that have 50 retweets or more. Most of these pundits are heavy tweeters, the lab explained to Mashable, and tweets with just a few retweets frequently don't have enough data to be statistically meaningful.

Yet many of Cillizza's tweets, unlike Navarro's, are so despised that they aren't even captured by the algorithm. Take this tweet, which wasn't included in the sample because it only has 23 retweets. It just happens to have 1.1k responses (Ratio: 47.8) and most of them are, um, well:

Or this one, with a Ratio of 18.13.

Ratio: 21.35.

The algorithm also doesn't capture tweets and replies, where Cilllizza has produced some of his most despised material:

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Ratio: 39.7.

Or this one, which wasn't included in the sample because it happened too long ago to be included.

Compared to other pundits of his stature sampled, Cillizza has the highest Ratio with the exception of Meghan McCain. Part of that Ratio can plausibly be explained by McCain's fanbase, who doesn't always retweet her stories but who frequently likes them or posts favorable comments like this one below:

Here's everyone's average Ratio of their last 3,200 tweets, per the lab.

CillizzaCNN: 0.913552

JoyAnnReid: 0.259206

JudgeJeanine:0.471165

MeghanMcCain: 1.017996

ananavarro: 0.484394

cher: 0.468431

davidfrum: 0.268403

jonathanchait:0.214872

mattyglesias: 0.274737

realDonaldTrump:0.716319

You can better see these disparities on a line graph. Note: Cillizza's analyzed tweets, in green, only go back three months. Cillizza tweets more frequently than most included in this sample, and the algorithm only catalogues each account's most recent 3,200 tweets because of Twitter's API.

Cillizza v. Navarro

Mashable ImageCredit: cloudera fast forward labs

Cillizza v. Reid

Mashable ImageCredit: cloudera fast forward labs

Cillizza v. Trump

Mashable ImageCredit: cloudera fast forward labs

What does all this mean for Cillizza's career? Meh, probably nothing. Even though he's losing at Twitter, he's winning where it matters most: on site.

His Reddit AMA attracted more than 100,000 views and his most trafficked column, "Donald Trump Just Had the Weirdest Cabinet Meeting Ever," received over 3,000,000 unique visitors in June. His other most popular columns average somewhere between 1 and 2 million visitors.

That being said, one of my most critically acclaimed articles, "Feminist blogger makes bread with yeast from her own vagina," received over 107,000 shares. I'm fully confident that approximately .000000001 of visitors thought that was a good idea, yet it was never given a ratio.

There are so many awful takes out there just waiting to be properly scored. In the meantime, scrappy ol' Twitter must do what it does best: dunking on bad tweets, one Judge Judy GIF at a time.

Via Giphy
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