Corpus ID: 157069312

'It's Trending on Twitter' - An Analysis of the Twitter Manipulations in the Massachusetts 2010 Special Senate Election

@inproceedings{Just2012ItsTO,
  title={'It's Trending on Twitter' - An Analysis of the Twitter Manipulations in the Massachusetts 2010 Special Senate Election},
  author={M. Just and Ann N. Crigler and P. Metaxas and Eni Mustafaraj},
  year={2012}
}

• M. Just, Ann N. Crigler, +1 author Eni Mustafaraj
• Published 2012
• Political Science

The 2010 Massachusetts Special Senate Election -- a precursor to the current high stakes congressional campaigns -- was characterized by millions of dollars in outside funding, an advertising blitz, out-of-state volunteers, Tea Party mobilization, volatile polling, and a broad social media campaign, including Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. Poll results were triumphantly tweeted, blogged, and covered in news reports among homophilous groups. In addition, users attempted to influence trends… Expand

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