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Elon Musk's Twitter Takeover: Politician Accounts

Social and Information Networks 2022-12-07 v3
Authors: Veli Safak , Aniish Sridhar
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Abstract

We provided quantitative data supporting significant changes between the time Twitter acceptance the offer on April 25 and the time the agreement was finalized on October 27. Republican politicians saw significant increases in their follower counts, while Democrat politicians saw significant decreases.

Keywords

Twitter takeover Elon Musk politician accounts follower count Republican Democrat social media analysis

Cite

@article{arxiv.2205.08491,
  title  = {Elon Musk's Twitter Takeover: Politician Accounts},
  author = {Veli Safak and Aniish Sridhar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.08491},
  year   = {2022}
}

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