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    Twitter allows political campaigns to respond to emerging issues in real-time

Twitter allows political campaigns to respond to emerging issues in real-time

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More than in any election in the past decade, Donald Trump was able to use Twitter as a means of reaching out to his core constituency. But how do other politicians take advantage of this new way of communicating? In new research, Leticia Bode analyzed over 10,000 tweets and nearly 1,000 television ads from the 2010 Senate elections. She […]

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    #Politics on Twitter goes beyond the left-right ideology divide

#Politics on Twitter goes beyond the left-right ideology divide

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In U.S. politics, the main narrative tends to manifest as left vs right, Democrat vs. Republican, but is this reflected in the social media sphere as well? In new research which maps how hashtags in political tweets were used in the lead up to the 2010 Congressional midterm elections, Leticia Bode, Alex Hanna, JungHwan Yang, and Dhavan V. Shah […]

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