This project uses various sets of Twitter accounts to examine:

  • To what extent there is overlap between followers of similar and/or competing accounts?
  • Does overlap, or lack of it, reveal any social listening behaviors? Does polarization exist in followership?
  • Are there correlations between the Twitter adoption dates, social listening behaviors, and political and social events?

Group 1

@StopTrump2020
@RightWingWatch
@PPFA (Planned Parenthood)
@blklivesmatter (Black Lives Matter)
@NRA (The National Rifle Association of America)
@HRC (Human Rights Campaign, an LGBTQ civil rights organization)
@EyesOnQ (Eyes on QAnon)
@FRCdc (Family Research Council, public policy organization advancing faith, family, and freedom)

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Group 2

@PPFA (Planned Parenthood)
@RightWingWatch
@HRC (Human Rights Campaign, an LGBTQ civil rights organization)
@EyesOnQ (Eyes on QAnon)
@FRCdc (Family Research Council, public policy organization advancing faith, family, and freedom)
@UNFPA (United Nations Population Fund)
@free_equal (UN Free & Equal is a @UN @UNHumanRights initiative for lesbian, gay, bi, trans and intersex equality)
@ReproRights (the Center for Reproductive Rights)
@PRISource (Population Research Institute, seeks to ‘expose the myth of overpopulation’)
@March_for_Life (Official March for Life account)

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