Political Violence

Charlie Kirk was born in 1993, and grew to become one of the most infleuntial conservative activistis in the United States. Charlie Kirk, despite dropping out of college, founded Turning Point USA, a highly conservative non-profit organization, with extreme empasis of bringing right winged politics to young college voters. Charlie Kirk's assasination on Semptember 10th has been top headline news, and has mobilized many of his conservative followers to continue his legacy. By studying Charlie Kirk's posts, we can see his impact on the community.

The US has been known for incidents of political violence, the most recent one being Charlie Kirk's assasination. Past ones include the January 6th Capitol Riots in 2021, attempted assasination of president Trump, In June 2025, in Minnesotia, former Minnesota house sepaker and her husband was shot due to their political views. Charlie Kirk's impact, despite violence, will still be studied.

Charlie Kirk Post X Data From September 9th to his death.

Date M/D/YR	Likes	Views	Likes/View	Comments	# of User Reposts	User Reposts/Views	Post Type	Word Count
9/10/2025	337,000	33,000,000	0.010	19,000	59,000	0.002	Original	38
9/10/2025	40,000	11,000,000	0.004	1200	7300	0.001	Repost	9
9/10/2025	118,000	20,000,000	0.006	4,000	21000	0.001	Quote Post	11
9/10/2025	188,000	24,000,000	0.008	4900	30,000	0.001	Quote Post	21
9/9/2025	55,000	4,600,000	0.012	753	11,000	0.002	Repost	33
9/9/2025	122,000	7,300,000	0.017	3,300	23,000	0.003	Repost	29
9/9/2025	750,000	79,000,000	0.009	16,000	105,000	0.001	Original	6
9/9/2025	162,000	10,000,000	0.016	2100	24,000	0.002	Original	75
9/9/2025	53,000	3,500,000	0.015	1500	5300	0.002	Original	35
9/9/2025	302,000	21,000,000	0.014	10,000	66,000	0.003	Original	44
9/9/2025	72000	3,900,000	0.018	3500	16,000	0.004	Repost	25
9/9/2025	24,000	1,900,000	0.013	1600	6,500	0.003	Original	25
9/9/2025	10,000	2,400,000	0.004	460	2700	0.001	Repost	63
9/9/2025	38,000	4,500,000	0.008	365	4900	0.001	Repost	104
9/9/2025	130,000	13,000,000	0.010	5200	23,000	0.002	Repost	50
9/9/2025	15,000	2,400,000	0.006	655	4,400	0.002	Quote Post	139
9/9/2025	147,000	4,900,000	0.030	5900	25,000	0.005	Repost	40
9/9/2025	61,000	2,500,000	0.024	1400	15,000	0.006	Original	83
9/9/2025	55,000	3,200,000	0.017	2000	11,000	0.003	Original	20
9/9/2025	26,000	3,900,000	0.007	1000	5,800	0.001	Repost	46
9/9/2025	229,000	10,000,000	0.023	4,400	34,000	0.003	Original	41
9/9/2025	2,600	1,400,000	0.002	167	604	0.000	Original	0
9/9/2025	9,000	1,400,000	0.006	263	2,200	0.002	Quote Post	28

Glossary

M/D/YR	Month/Date/Year when referring to the date of posts in the data
# of User Reposts	The number of X users who repost the post on Charlie Kirk's profile
Original	Charlie Kirk wrote the entire post himself
Repost	Charlie Kirk directly posts someone else's post on his page, a repost, without a comment
Quote Post	Charlie Kirk posts someone else's post, but with a comment, either an agreement or a response

Likes/View	User Reposts/Views
0.010	0.002
0.004	0.001
0.006	0.001
0.008	0.001
0.012	0.002
0.017	0.003
0.009	0.001
0.016	0.002
0.015	0.002
0.014	0.003
0.018	0.004
0.013	0.003
0.004	0.001
0.008	0.001
0.010	0.002
0.006	0.002
0.030	0.005
0.024	0.006
0.017	0.003
0.007	0.001
0.023	0.003
0.002	0.000
0.006	0.002

Scatter Plot of Likes vs Views

Word Count	Views
38	33,000,000
9	11,000,000
11	20,000,000
21	24,000,000
33	4,600,000
29	7,300,000
6	79,000,000
75	10,000,000
35	3,500,000
44	21,000,000
25	3,900,000
25	1,900,000
63	2,400,000
104	4,500,000
50	13,000,000
139	2,400,000
40	4,900,000
83	2,500,000
20	3,200,000
46	3,900,000
41	10,000,000
0	1,400,000
28	1,400,000

Scatter Plot of Word Count vs Views

Scatter Plot word count vs views — In this Scatter Plot of comparing the Word count against views in Charlie Kirks post, there is a correlation of -.305. It is a weak correlation between the amount of words used in each post versus views. There definetly is an impact, as words used increases, the amount of views do decrease, but not to a very significant degree. This could be why many of Charlie Kirk's posts on X are short, and every single post I analyzed had a a media attachment, whether a photo or a video.