More tweets, more votes: Social media as a quantitative indicator of political behavior

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  DiGrazia, Joseph ^a   McKelvey, Karissa ^b   Bollen, Johan ^b   Rojas, Fabio ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; ELECTION; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; INTERNET; POLITICS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; SOCIAL MEDIA;

HUMANS; POLITICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL MEDIA;

EID: 84896703695     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0079449     Document Type: Article

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