We plotted a network of follower growth tweets belonging to three categories: #MAGA, #Resistance, and apolitical. As it turns out, the #MAGA and #Resistance networks are more tightly intertwined with each other than either is with the apolitical category.
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@ZellaQuixote Looking at the networks independently, the #MAGA and apolitical categories look similar to each other - each forms a densely packed cluster, in contrast with the #Resistance accounts which form a more loosely connected network of multiple clusters.
@ZellaQuixote We’d like to thank @slyfox6057 for the somewhat unintentional lead - the account in question retweets both #resistance follow lists and spammy apolitical ones (and very little else), which got us interested in studying the interactions between different follower growth schemes.
