3 papers
cs.SI2016
Will Sanders Supporters Jump Ship for Trump? Fine-grained Analysis of Twitter Followers
Yu Wang, Yang Feng, Xiyang Zhang +2
In this paper, we study the likelihood of Bernie Sanders supporters voting for Donald Trump instead of Hillary Clinton. Building from a unique time-series dataset of the three cand…
cs.SI2016
To Follow or Not to Follow: Analyzing the Growth Patterns of the Trumpists on Twitter
Yu Wang, Jiebo Luo, Richard Niemi +1
In this paper, we analyze the growth patterns of Donald Trump's followers (Trumpists, henceforth) on Twitter. We first construct a random walk model with a time trend to study the…
cs.SI2016
Catching Fire via "Likes": Inferring Topic Preferences of Trump Followers on Twitter
Yu Wang, Jiebo Luo, Richard Niemi +2
In this paper, we propose a framework to infer the topic preferences of Donald Trump's followers on Twitter. We first use latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) to derive the weighted m…