German politicians’ Twitter follower numbers are not all they seem
- Last week’s printed edition of Focus had a piece about how Germany’s politicians are using social media. It made the dubious claim that 61% of Green top candidate Katrin Göring-Eckardt’s Twitter followers could have been bought. Let’s actually instead try to get to grips with what is going on here, and try to draw some conclusions. ...
Author: | Jon Worth |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-501441 |
URL: | https://jonworth.eu/german-politicians-twitter-follower-numbers-not-seem/ |
Parent Title (English): | Jon Worth Euroblog |
Publisher: | Jon Worth Euroblog |
Place of publication: | [s. l.] |
Contributor(s): | Peter Tauber |
Document Type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Year of Completion: | 2017 |
Date of first Publication: | 2017/05/17 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2019/04/23 |
Tag: | Fake Followers; Gregor Gysi; Hans-Christian Ströbele; Heiko Maas; Jürgen Trittin; Katrin Göring-Eckardt; Peter Altmaier; Peter Tauber; Pluragraph; Sahra Wagenknecht; Sigmar Gabriel; Twitter; Volker Beck |
Issue: | 17.05.2017 |
Page Number: | 4 |
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HeBIS-PPN: | 452159776 |
Institutes: | Philosophie und Geschichtswissenschaften / Geschichtswissenschaften |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 32 Politikwissenschaft / 320 Politikwissenschaft |
Licence (English): | Creative Commons - Namensnennung-Nicht kommerziell 4.0 |