This study investigates whether microblogging messages on Twitter validly mirror the
political landscape off-line and can be used to predict election results. In the context of the …

A growing body of research and practical applications employ social media data as the
proxy for a complex behavior of a society. This paper provides an overview of academic …

Twitter is a microblogging website where users read and write millions of short messages on
a variety of topics every day. This study uses the context of the German federal election to …

Microblogging services such as Twitter are said to have the potential for increasing political
participation. Given the feature of'retweeting'as a simple yet powerful mechanism for …

Twitter is a popular microblogging service that is used to read and write millions of short
messages on any topic within a 140‐character limit. Popular or influential users tweet their …

This study integrates network and content analyses to examine valence-based homophily
on Twitter or the tendency for individuals to interact with those expressing similar valence …

In this article, we discuss the design of party classifiers for Congressional speech data. We
then examine these party classifiers' person-dependency and time-dependency. We found …

Legislative speech records from the 101st to 108th Congresses of the US Senate are
analysed to study political ideologies. A widely-used text classification algorithm–Support …

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The popular microblogging social media platform Twitter has been prominently covered in
the press for its perceived role in activism, disaster recovery, and elections amongst other …