For the 2020 US elections, I would like to track all politicians on Twitter. To take it a step further, it makes sense to get all known political accounts on Twitter. I am currently ingesting all verified user tweets -- but there are a lot of local level politicians not verified.
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Are there any recommendations on how best to discover all international politicians on Twitter? Is this a job best for crowd-sourcing? All accounts added will be monitored in real-time.
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Wikipedia could be a good place for such a project (list). High visibility, many helping hands, existing infrastructure.
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lists by the official orgs: twitter.com/thedemocrats/l - current
twitter.com/TheDLCC/lists - upcoming
some are better than others & the lists of candidates are by nature ephemeral
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Oh, it would take scraping or something but ballotpedia.org has like everything including the obscure candidates
ballotpedia.org/Mitch_McConnell <- has twitter account, many candidates just don't have much of a social media presence
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You may want to talk with , whose Electome project did something similar in 2016. In addition to politicians, he got a large set of political journalists, and was able to document interesting interlinking behavior.
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Worth crowdsourcing, otherwise Lists, and aggregators like
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We created an account list for the recent Australian Federal election, happy to share it.
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has a lot of Twitter and Facebook handles linked to politicians.
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has a list of world leaders as well as some other country specific lists, but not much coverage beyond US/UK/Canada twitter.com/TwitterGov/lis
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