5 facts about political tweeting in the US
In the months before and after the contentious 2020 election, a third of tweets from American adults were about politics or political issues, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center. But what about the content and nature of these posts, such as when they were most prevalent on the site, or the terms that most distinguished political from non-political tweets? Here are five facts about political content on Twitter, based on the Center’s analysis of nearly 1 million English-language tweets from U.S. adults posted between May 1, 2020, and May 31, 2021. Pew Research Center conducted thisRead News