A Method for Computing Political Preference Among Twitter Followers

Social Networks

Volumn 36, Issue , 2014, Pages 177-184

  Golbeck, Jennifer ^a   Hansen, Derek ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Twitter, politics, liberal, conservative, news, journalism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884493238     PISSN: 03788733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socnet.2013.07.004     Document Type: Article

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