Revealing the political affinity of online entities through their Twitter followers

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Highlights：

• Twitter followers portray diverse aspects of their followees’ political profile.

• Structural analysis of Twitter captures the political scene.

• Novel use of the Minimum Linear Arrangement problem for bipolar arrangement.

• Overlap coefficient very efficient at quantifying similarity among political actors.

摘要

•Twitter followers portray diverse aspects of their followees’ political profile.•Structural analysis of Twitter captures the political scene.•Novel use of the Minimum Linear Arrangement problem for bipolar arrangement.•Overlap coefficient very efficient at quantifying similarity among political actors.

论文关键词：Social network analysis,Twitter followers,News media,Political affinity

论文评审过程：Received 21 May 2019, Revised 15 October 2019, Accepted 17 November 2019, Available online 5 December 2019, Version of Record 5 December 2019.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2019.102172