The new Spanish political scenario: Twitter graph and opinion analysis with an interactive visualisation Pelayo Quirós∗ Blanca Rosario Campomanes-Álvarez∗
[email protected] [email protected] CTIC Technological Centre Gijón, Asturias, Spain ABSTRACT Furthermore, these applications are usually centred in a partic- Twitter, as a social network, has been used extensively as a way ular field, given the raw daily volume, as it has been previously to express users opinion about a wide range of topics. Particu- mentioned. Among others, economics ([33], [25], [10]), television larly, politics have been one of the main issues in the last years, and cinema ([2], [12], [30]), or sports ([28], [36], [31]) have been and consequently, its study in Twitter can lead to valuable con- widely studied. However, this paper is focused on the application clusions. of Twitter analytic to politics, which has already been tackled The methodology presented in this paper is based on the ex- as well ([15], [16], [4], [5]). Particularly, this analysis is devoted traction of the followers network of the main politicians in Spain to the Spanish political situation in Twitter prior to the second th prior to the general election of November of 2019, providing a general election in 2019, which took place the 10 of November. suitable graph analysis and visualisation. Hence, closeness be- The main motivation of this approach is based on the re- tween different political parties can be spotted with respect to cent evolution of the Spanish political scenario (http://www. their common followers. This is motivated by the new politi- infoelectoral.mir.es/).