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When Celebrities Endorse Politicians: Analyzing the Behavior of Celebrity Followers in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election
Yu Wang, Jiebo Luo
Thanks to their name recognition and popularity, celebrities play an important role in American politics. Celebrity endorsements could add to the momentum of a politician's campaig…
How Polarized Have We Become? A Multimodal Classification of Trump Followers and Clinton Followers
Yu Wang, Yang Feng, Zhe Hong +2
Polarization in American politics has been extensively documented and analyzed for decades, and the phenomenon became all the more apparent during the 2016 presidential election, w…
Tactics and Tallies: A Study of the 2016 U.S. Presidential Campaign Using Twitter 'Likes'
Yu Wang, Xiyang Zhang, Jiebo Luo
We propose a framework to measure, evaluate, and rank campaign effectiveness in the ongoing 2016 U.S. presidential election. Using Twitter data collected from Sept. 2015 to Jan. 20…
When Follow is Just One Click Away: Understanding Twitter Follow Behavior in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election
Yu Wang, Xiyang Zhang, Jiebo Luo
Motivated by the two paradoxical facts that the marginal cost of following one extra candidate is close to zero and that the majority of Twitter users choose to follow only one or…
Detection and Analysis of 2016 US Presidential Election Related Rumors on Twitter
Zhiwei Jin, Juan Cao, Han Guo +3
The 2016 U.S. presidential election has witnessed the major role of Twitter in the year's most important political event. Candidates used this social media platform extensively for…