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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

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.

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