Pew Looks at How Candidates for Office in the US Have Used Twitter This Year

The think tank analyzed more than 3.4 million tweets by over 7,500 hopefuls for federal, state, local office

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Pew Research Center analyzed more than 3.4 million tweets by over 7,500 candidates for federal, state and local office since the year began and shared its findings in the run-up to the midterms elections next week.

Computational social scientists Samuel Bestvater and Sono Shah wrote in a blog post, “As Election Day draws closer, candidates for office at the federal, state and local level are competing for the support of the voting public both online and off.”


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