Tweets and Completes: Measuring Individual-level Political Attitudes Using Survey-Matched Tweets

• In Event: Studying Politics Using Novel Data

Brief Overview

How do attitudes expressed on Twitter differ from those reported on surveys? We scrape 360,000 tweets from 1,200 adult YouGov respondents to compare text-based and survey-based measures of political interest and affective polarization.

Authors

• Haohan Chen, Duke University

• Brian Guay, Duke University