Emotivism Trends in Digital Political Communication: The Influence on the Results of the US Presidential Elections by Belén Casas-Mas, Martin Fernández Marcellán, José Manuel Robles, Daniel Vélez

“…By way of the use of a database for the same Twitter accounts in both elections, we provide very consistent results that highlight the lack of argumentation of the public debate and the notably polarized profile of the affective dispositions shown by participants. …”
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The Political Language of Disaster: Indonesian Government Communication for Handling the Covid-19 Pandemic by Alnizar, Fariz, Manshur, Fadlil Munawwar

“…The primary data is derived from President Joko Widodo’s speech at Bogor Palace and the tweets of @kemenkes @BNPB and @Jokowi’s Twitter accounts related to Covid-19. This research examines how the Indonesian government communicates its policies in overcoming the Covid-19 pandemic. …”
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Compliments and compliment responses on twitter among male and female celebrities by Mohd Yusof, Siti Yuhaida Anniqah, Tan, Bee Hoon

“…Forty celebrities consisting of 20 males and 20 females were selected and the data were collected from their twitter accounts. A total of 220 compliments and compliment responses were extracted from the celebrities’ tweets as to form the corpus for investigation. …”
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Learning to Generate Popular Headlines by Amin Omidvar, Aijun An

“…We also create a new dataset for predicting headline popularity by scraping Twitter accounts of news media. Our evaluation shows that fine-tuning summarization models for the headline generation task can significantly improve their performance. …”
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Political Rhetoric and Hate Speech in the Case of Shamima Begum by Alexander Murphy

“…This paper offers a qualitative analysis of the political rhetoric promoted in the Twitter accounts of leading UK politicians in response to the citizenship decision, and subsequent developments between February and April 2019, such as the death of Begum’s child and the granting of legal aid to support her ongoing legal challenge. …”
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Social Media in American Public Policy (On the Example of the Social Network Twitter) by Elena V. Efanova

“…The author addresses statistics and Twitter accounts of American politicians. Analysis. …”
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Semiotics of Emoticons and Emoji in the Discoursive Space of Spanish Political Internet Communication by Marina V. Larionova, Anastasia V. Demkina

“…The materials of the study are the publications of Spanish government bodies, political parties and politicians in the official Twitter accounts. The relevance of the study stems from the need to analyze the functional and impact potential of emoticons and emoji as an integral part of modern Spanish political discourse in the Internet and determine their characteristics from the standpoint of theoretical linguistics, discourse theory, semiotics and pragmalinguistics. …”
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The #BTW17 Twitter Dataset–Recorded Tweets of the Federal Election Campaigns of 2017 for the 19th German Bundestag by Nane Kratzke

“…This dataset comprises Twitter interactions related to German politicians of the most important political parties over several months in the (pre-)phase of the German federal election campaigns in 2017. The Twitter accounts of more than 360 politicians were followed for four months. …”
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Detecting weak and strong Islamophobic hate speech on social media by Vidgen, B, Yasseri, T

“…We apply the classifier to a dataset of 109,488 tweets produced by far right Twitter accounts during 2017. Whilst most tweets are not Islamophobic, weak Islamophobia is considerably more prevalent (36,963 tweets) than strong (14,895 tweets). …”

Automatic Categorization of LGBT User Profiles on Twitter with Machine Learning by Amir Karami, Morgan Lundy, Frank Webb, Hannah R. Boyajieff, Michael Zhu, Dorathea Lee

“…This research develops a machine learning classifier based on the profile and bio features of these Twitter accounts. To have an efficient and effective process, we use a feature selection method to reduce the number of features and improve the classifier’s performance. …”
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Analisis Akun Twitter Berpengaruh terkait Covid-19 menggunakan Social Network Analysis by Aprillian Kartino, M. Khairul Anam, Rahmaddeni, Junadhi

“…As well as to know in identifying the source of Covid-19 information, whether dominated by competent Twitter accounts in their fields. The data examined 19,939 nodes and 12,304 edges were taken from data provided by the web academic.droneemprit.id on the project "Analisis Opini Persebaran Virus Corona di Media Sosial", using the period of December 2019 to December 2020 on social media Twitter. …”
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An analytics approach to health and healthcare in citizen science communications on Twitter by Fernando Martínez-Martínez, David Roldán-Álvarez, Estefanía Martín, H Ulrich Hoppe

“…Conclusion Based on our results, those entities or actors who are most cited and retweeted are Twitter accounts of projects and not primarily individual professionals or citizen scientists.…”
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Use of Twitter in disaster rescue: lessons learned from Hurricane Harvey by Volodymyr V. Mihunov, Nina S. N. Lam, Lei Zou, Zheye Wang, Kejin Wang

“…They suggested promoting Twitter accounts and hashtags that accept emergency requests. …”
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Official Information on Twitter during the Pandemic in Spain by Soledad García-García, Raquel Rodríguez-Díaz

“…This research considers the diffusion of official information in different phases of the first three months of the government’s action (102 days) from the outbreak of COVID-19 in Spain (March 2020) and how it developed its approach to crisis communication using the Twitter accounts of the President of the Spanish government (@sanchezcastejon), front-line leaders and the Ministry of Health (@sanidadgob), the main public institution responsible for health crisis management with the hashtags #EsteVirusLoParamosUnidos and #COVID-19. …”
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Enhancement of user experience and accessibility for Twittener web application by Ng, Hong Quan

“…While a console application periodically crawls feeds of Twitter accounts in pre-defined topics to retrieve the latest updates from these accounts. …”
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The epidemiological model for news dissemination via twitter / Nur Syafiqa Md Asri by Md Asri, Nur Syafiqa

“…The data was observed approximately 14 days after the news was reported from two newspapers’ Twitter accounts which are @staronline and @bharianmy from The Star and Berita Harian, respectively. …”
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Catholic Media in the Hands of Laics: Case Study of Vatican Communication Chiefs’ Twitter Activities by Tereza Zavadilová

“…The quantitative content analysis of both their Twitter accounts, closely connected with the newscast produced by <i>Vatican News</i>, is the scientific method used in this paper. …”
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Impact of Trump’s Digital Rhetoric on the US Elections: A View from Worldwide Far-Right Populism by Concha Pérez-Curiel, Rubén Rivas-de-Roca, Mar García-Gordillo

“…Using a content analysis method based on triangulation (quantitative and qualitative-discursive), we analyzed the Twitter accounts of five leaders (@realDonalTrump, @MLP_officiel, @matteosalvinimi, @Santi_ABASCAL, and @Jairbolsonaro) and five digital front pages (<i>The New York Times</i>, <i>O Globo</i>, <i>Le Monde</i>, <i>La Repubblica,</i> and <i>El País</i>). …”
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Going rogue: what scientists can learn about Twitter communication from “alt” government accounts by Matthew J. Wilson, Elizabeth K. Perkin

“…The inauguration of President Trump in the United States led to the active restriction of science communication from federal agencies, resulting in the creation of many unofficial “alt” Twitter accounts to maintain communication. Alt accounts had many followers (e.g., 15 accounts had > 100,000) and received a large amount of media attention, making them ideal for better understanding how differences in messaging can affect public engagement with science on microblogging platforms. …”
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Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip: How Does Social Media Influence Patients and Caregivers Seeking Information? by Ashok Para, Brian Batko, Joseph Ippolito, Gabriel Hanna, Folorunsho Edobor-Osula

“…Comments and posts from the social medial platforms were then qualitatively assessed by using a thematic analysis. 16 Facebook pages and groups, 135 YouTube videos, and 5 Twitter accounts related to DDH were identified across 15 countries. …”
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