Senator Follow / Following Data — twitter.following • qss

Lists pairs of the Twitter screen names of following and followed politicians.

twitter.following

Format

A data frame with 3859 rows and 2 variables:

following: character: Twitter screen name of the following senator
followed: character: Twitter screen name of the followed senator

Details

See QSS Table 5.4.

References

Imai, Kosuke. 2017. Quantitative Social Science: An Introduction. Princeton University Press. URL.
Pablo Barberá; Birds of the Same Feather Tweet Together: Bayesian Ideal Point Estimation Using Twitter Data. Political Analysis 2015; 23 (1): 76-91. doi: 10.1093/pan/mpu011