00:00How many times did President Gustavo Petro tweet during his four years in office?
00:03El Espectador analyzed the outgoing president's publications between August 7, 2022 and July 25.
00:10of 2026
00:11and found a total of 14,585 tweets on X's account.
00:16This means that if each tweet were a person, it could fill the Movistar Arena in Bogotá.
00:22In the 10 posts he publishes on average per day, the president gave dozens of orders,
00:27He fired officials and even caused diplomatic crises in a series of actions that set his agenda with just a click.
00:34In four years, the outgoing president adjusted the recipe for how to communicate from the Casa de Nariño.
00:40To these ingredients must be added influences hired by the State,
00:44Presidential speeches turned into cabinet meetings and active hostility towards the media.
00:50In these 1,448 days of the analysis, only between 8 and 10 in the morning,
00:57The president posted a total of 3,335 entries and gave orders from his social media accounts at least 300 times.
01:04social.
01:05These included the purchase of a fleet of Gripen aircraft in Sweden.
01:08Or how could we forget, when on January 26, 2025 at 3:41 in the morning,
01:14He prohibited the entry of American planes into national territory carrying handcuffed migrants,
01:20a request that sparked a diplomatic crisis with the United States.
01:23To give a quick rundown, among the officials dismissed from their X account are
01:28the former Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, José Antonio Salazar,
01:32the former Minister of Sport, María Isabel Urrutia,
01:34And the last case, that of the director of the Adaptation Fund, Angie Rodríguez.
01:38His messages on social media also played a crucial role in his political strategy.
01:43Most of the public gatherings during his administration were organized from his X account.
01:48as well as from the networks of the Presidency and various ministries.
01:52The volume of posts that the president made from his X account on occasion
01:57He influenced crucial decisions in the country.
02:00Therefore, the day he used his X account the most was when the internal consultation was held.
02:05Historic Pact,
02:06on October 26, 2025, when it tweeted 69 times.
02:12This pattern was repeated in the second round on June 21,
02:15when he sent 60 posts, mostly about the election,
02:19an indicator that showed the president's political activism,
02:22which led to legal problems for alleged improper involvement in politics.
02:26One of the most recent cases was when the Administrative Court of Cundinamarca
02:30He ordered him to retract his claims about alleged fraud in the 2014, 2022 and 2026 legislative elections.
02:38as well as refraining from making accusations without evidence.
02:41However, Petro defied the ruling and alleged censorship.
02:45Since 2023, Petro has had to delete some posts due to various inaccuracies.
02:50One of them was when he posted photos of a hospital in terrible condition
02:54and claimed they were from a municipality in Antioquia, but they were actually from Caracas.
02:58And on May 18, 2023, in the midst of the search for the lost children in Guaviare,
03:04He had to admit that he had been wrong in reporting the appearance of the minors,
03:08That information had not yet been confirmed, and the children only appeared a month after their mistake.
03:14And despite the fact that thousands of posts by President Gustavo Petro demonstrate an institutional use of his social media,
03:20From the Casa de Lariño, they indicated that the publications made by the account @Petro Gustavo in X
03:26They correspond to a personal account.
03:29But we must not forget the political participation of President Gustavo Petro
03:33It was a daily occurrence during his last four years.
03:36In his thousands of tweets, he mentioned President-elect Abelardo de la Esprella at least 66 times.
03:43An imbalance compared to the mentions of his chosen successor in that election, Iván Cepeda,
03:47who appears only 26 times.
03:49However, these two new political players are nowhere near the 238 mentions of Iván Duque.
03:56or at 165 to former president Álvaro Uribe.
03:59During this four-year period, public media ended up being transformed into tools of propaganda and political confrontation.
04:06In communications, the role of influencers was also fundamental in this administration.
04:11As El Espectador reported in 2025, at least 18 content creators who promoted the outgoing administration
04:19They signed contracts worth more than 700 million with the State.
04:22Among them are those who are now congressmen of the Historical Pact, such as Walter Rodríguez, known on social media as Wally Opina,
04:29or Laura Beltrán, known as Lalis.
04:31All these ingredients show how it only took four years for Gustavo Petro to change the recipe
04:38with which communications moved in Casa de Nariño, based on a formula that was inspired by models
04:43of others
04:44monetary figures in the region like Trump or Millet, a path that led him to govern from his networks,
04:49to dissolve his cabinet on television, to launch a narrative against the media,
04:53politicize RTBC and use influencers as battle-hardened squires.
04:57Everything is geared towards becoming the nation's main communications agent,
05:02in which information was unfiltered and went directly to the citizens,
05:06bearing the risk that the emotions in his tweets would end up having consequences for himself or for Colombia.
05:21Thank you!
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