When election winners are announced, their Twitter supporters respond quicker, are more engaged and use less toxic language than supporters of the losing candidate, according to analysis in the US, UK, Brazil and Argentina
Credit: Calvo et al., 2023, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
When election winners are announced, their Twitter supporters respond quicker, are more engaged and use less toxic language than supporters of the losing candidate, according to analysis in the US, UK, Brazil and Argentina
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Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0281475
Article Title: Winning! Election returns and engagement in social media
Author Countries: USA, Argentina
Funding: The authors received no specific funding for this work.
Journal
PLoS ONE
DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0281475
Article Title
Winning! Election returns and engagement in social media
Article Publication Date
1-Mar-2023
COI Statement
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
