Twitter and Facebook are not representative of the general population: Political attitudes and demographics of British social media users

Jonathan Mellon; Christopher Prosser

doi:10.1177/2053168017720008

Twitter and Facebook are not representative of the general population: Political attitudes and demographics of British social media users

Department of Politics, International Relations and Philosophy

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Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-9
Number of pages	9
Journal	Research and Politics
Volume	4
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/2053168017720008
Publication status	Published - 1 Jul 2017

Keywords

British election study
Election forecasting
Facebook
Representativeness
Social media
Twitter

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2015 British Election Study Post-Election Face-to-Face Survey
Fieldhouse, E. (Creator), Green, J. (Creator), Evans, G. (Creator), Schmitt, H. (Creator), van der Eijk, C. (Creator), Mellon, J. (Creator) & Prosser, C. (Creator), British Election Study, 2015
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2015 British Election Study Post-Election Face-to-Face Survey

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