U.S. Senators' Tweets: The Tweets of Single-Minded Seekers of Donations

• In Event: X (Twitter) Marks the Spot

Brief Overview

We posit that U.S. senators use Twitter to position themselves as policy experts to engage in-state donors & attract out-of-state ones. We categorize their tweets and study the link to donation shifts.

Authors

• Stephanie Ramsey Davis, University of Arkansas at Little Rock

• Annelise Russell, University of Kentucky