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When election winners are announced, their Twitter supporters respond quicker, are more engaged and use less toxic language than supporters of the losing candidate, according to analysis in the US, UK, Brazil and Argentina

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Winning! Election returns and engagement in social media

image: Toxicity during the 2019 UK general election. view more 

Credit: Calvo et al., 2023, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

When election winners are announced, their Twitter supporters respond quicker, are more engaged and use less toxic language than supporters of the losing candidate, according to analysis in the US, UK, Brazil and Argentina

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Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0281475

Article Title: Winning! Election returns and engagement in social media

Author Countries: USA, Argentina

Funding: The authors received no specific funding for this work.

Journal

PLOS ONE

DOI

10.1371/journal.pone.0281475

Article Title

Winning! Election returns and engagement in social media

Article Publication Date

1-Mar-2023

COI Statement

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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