Who are Political Retweeters?, Demographic comparison of political retweeters with retweeters of non-political personalities

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Twitter has been a focus of research in political science for a few years now as it provides the opportunity to make direct observations on the spread of political information in different communities.

• Here we will be studying the phenomena of information diffusion, and focus on nodes that are responsible for spreading political information everywhere on the Twitter network.
• This paper attempts to fill gaps in the literature regarding the demographics of political retweeters using various techniques on the name and location-related data from most active French political retweeters.
• Here I will try to state the break-down of these accounts in categories based on gender, language, location, education level, and self-descriptions.