What Tweets and YouTube comments have in common? Sentiment and graph analysis on data related to US elections 2020.

ABSTRACT: Most studies analyzing political traffic on Social Networks focus on a single platform, while campaigns and reactions to political events produce interactions across different social media. Ignoring such cross-platform traffic may lead to analytical errors, missing important interactions across social media that e.g. explain the cause of trending or viral discussions. This work links Twitter and YouTube social networks using cross-postings of video URLs on Twitter to discover the main tendencies and preferences of the electorate, distinguish users and communities' favouritism towards an ideology or candidate, study the sentiment towards candidates and political events, and measure political homophily. This study shows that Twitter communities correlate with YouTube comment communities: tha

SUBMITTER: Shevtsov A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9888715 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature