Back in November 2016, after a tweet from President Trump about whether burning the American flag should be a criminal offense, reporters Michael Grynbaum and Sydney Ember posed an interesting question in a New York Times article: if Trump tweets, is it news? As the leader of the free world, Trump's every move and musing has potentially global ramifications. Then again, the whimsical nature of the President's tweets and his tendency to reverse course on policy issues makes reporting on Trump's Twitter challenging and sometimes misleading.

With the media's conundrum in mind, The DataFace team decided to see how the media has been covering Trump's Twitter in practice. How much attention has Trump's Twitter actually elicited in the press both before and after his election? To answer this question, we dissected a dataset of over 40,000 articles written about Trump since July 1, 2015 on the websites of 10 major media outlets - the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, among others. You can read more about our methodology in the last section.