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Twitter Users Advocate Switching to Credit Unions

Analysis of all tweets between 5th of October to 5th of July that mentioned “credit union” or "credit unions” and “banks” or “bank” had 518 tweets advocating to move from banks to credit unions, and 15 tweets advocating to do the reverse, which is a ratio of 34:1.



All the tweets can be found in these two sheets (1, 2).

 The most commonly cited reasons were lower fees, better rates, customer service, non-profit status, member ownership, big banks’ support of fossil fuels and credit unions’ more open attitude towards cryptocurrencies.



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