Integrating sentiment and social structure to determine preference alignments: The Irish Marriage Referendum
Table 5: Fraction of mention tweets that occurred between nodes that are connected in the follower network.
['From', 'To', 'Original', 'Reply', 'Retweet']
We also calculate the fraction of original, replies and retweets that occurred in the presence of a follower link. Yes and No communities, only 56% and 52% occurred when there was a follower link between the users. This is yet another indication that users in these two groups were more likely to engage with each other, even in the absence of strong structural ties. These results are consistent with the notion that although the marriage referendum was a heated topic on Twitter, the engagement between users with different views was limited to a small subset of highly active users. Note that we only study tweets made using two hashtags; it is possible that the actual number of replies was higher.