Make Tweets Great Again: Who Are Opinion Leaders, and What Did They Tweet About Donald Trump?

• Published in: Social science computer review Vol. 40; no. 6; pp. 1456 - 1477
• Main Authors: Alexandre, Ilo, Jai-sung Yoo, Joseph, Murthy, Dhiraj
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.12.2022; SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
• Subjects: Dirichlet problem; Eigenvectors; Elections; Information warfare; Mass media; Network centrality; Opinion leaders; Political leadership; Presidents; Social media; Social networks; Software agents; opinion leadership; Twitter; social media; influence; Trump

Twitter gained new levels of political prominence with Donald J. Trump’s use of the platform. Although previous work has been done studying the content of Trump’s tweets, there remains a dearth of research exploring who opinion leaders were in the early days of his presidency and what they were twee...