Remain camp is losing the hashtag battle in the twittersphere

Clare Llewellyn; Laura Cram

Remain camp is losing the hashtag battle in the twittersphere

School of Social and Political Science

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Abstract

With the leave and remain campaigns neck and neck in the polls, we might expect to see a similar spread of pro-Leave and pro-Remain opinions in the EU referendum twitter debate. In practice, we find relatively little support within our Twitter datasets for the Remain camp.

Original language	English
Publisher	The UK in a Changing Europe
Media of output	Blog post
Publication status	Published - 3 Feb 2016

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