Integrating sentiment and social structure to determine preference alignments: The Irish Marriage Referendum
Table 4: Type of communication channel used between community clusters. Proportions are given for the total tweets originating from each group.
['From', 'To', 'Mention tweets Original', 'Mention tweets Reply', 'Mention tweets Retweet', 'Porportion of cluster’s tweets Original', 'Porportion of cluster’s tweets Reply', 'Porportion of cluster’s tweets Retweet']
We also examine which type of mentions (original, replies or retweets) are used by the members of each group in their interactions. Unsurprisingly, retweet connections occur most often between groups where there is already a high number of follower connections. We observe a similar situation with original mention tweets. Interestingly, reply tweets do not follow this trend; these messages tend to be sent to community clusters where there are few follower links to the source cluster. The users in the Active Yes and Active No community clusters produce the most reply tweets: 24% and 26% of their tweets are replies, respectively.