Political Polarization on Twitter

This is the training data used to produce the results shown in the paper listed below. Source: Sampled public tweets from Twitter streaming API. Date range: 6 weeks prior to the 2010 Congressional midterm elections. Contains: Three networks of political communication between Twitter users Please cite: Michael Conover, Jacob Ratkiewicz, Matthew Francisco, Bruno Goncalves, Alessandro Flammini, and Filippo Menczer. Political Polarization on Twitter. Proc. 5th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media ICWSM, 2011.