More tweets, more votes: social media as a quantitative indicator of political behavior.
Is social media a valid indicator of political behavior? There is considerable debate about the validity of data extracted from social media for studying offline behavior. To address this issue, we show that there is a statistically significant association between tweets that mention a candidate for...
Main Authors: | Joseph Digrazia, Karissa McKelvey, Johan Bollen, Fabio Rojas |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2013-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3842288?pdf=render |
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