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More Tweets, More Votes: Social Media as a Quantitative Indicator of Political Behavior

  • Joseph DiGrazia ,

    * E-mail: jdigrazi@indiana.edu

    Affiliation Department of Sociology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America

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  • Karissa McKelvey,

    Affiliation School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America

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  • Johan Bollen,

    Affiliation School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America

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  • Fabio Rojas

    Affiliation Department of Sociology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America

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More Tweets, More Votes: Social Media as a Quantitative Indicator of Political Behavior

  • Joseph DiGrazia, 
  • Karissa McKelvey, 
  • Johan Bollen, 
  • Fabio Rojas
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  • Published: November 27, 2013
  • https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0079449
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