Here's an idea. Gather all followers for all major GOP and democrat politicians. Create a graph showing when those users were created and compare the two against one another. It will take about a week to get all followers for all senators, representatives and governors in the US.
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One challenge is how quickly that changes for many candidates, as this analysis suggests:
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Dem candidates - who is gaining traction? % increase in Twitter followers. Thanks to @ashokkdeb. Huge increase in followers for: @AndrewYang @JulianCastro @JohnDelaney @JayInslee #DemDebate #elections
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I have a script laying around to pull user’s follower/following data and dump it into Neo4j. Might fire that up if it’d be useful.
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Dataset continuing to grow at github.com/j6k4m8/Congres, but unfortunately I'm getting rate-limited into oblivion so going to need to change some things. Thinking about kicking these off in parallel on AWS lambdas. 1/
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Can't use GitHub for storage in the long-haul, but started this way since it'll mean diffs encode valuable info (cc 's suggestion in this thread, and cc and w.r.t Neo4j / other db use).
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