Twitter and Facebook are not representative of the general population: Political attitudes and demographics of British social media users

A growing social science literature has used Twitter and Facebook to study political and social phenomena including for election forecasting and tracking political conversations. This research note uses a nationally representative probability sample of the British population to examine how Twitter a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Jonathan Mellon, Christopher Prosser
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2017-07-01
Series:Research & Politics
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2053168017720008