We like to share our opinion about politics and everything that comes with it online. For example, many people make their political preference known in their biography. What is the opinion of the tweeting supporters of the traditionally three largest parties in the Netherlands? Read the results of an analysis of the tweeting supporters of these parties here.
The state of affairs
Everyone in the Netherlands is kept informed daily about what is happening in politics. There is currently disagreement between various parties. A section of the Lower House would rather see the Rutte-II Cabinet fall, because they romania mobile phone number list do not agree with certain positions of the VVD. One of these positions is the plan to implement new cutbacks, as became apparent on Budget Day. What do the tweeting supporters of the three traditionally largest political parties think? As a follow-up to the article about party leaders on Twitter, we have now made an analysis of the supporters of the PvdA, the VVD and the CDA.
In order to make a correct target group selection, we searched our system last week, October 2, 2013, for Twitter users with one of these three political parties in their biography. The 1,000 most active accounts were selected for each of these parties. They sent a total of over 25,000 messages about the PvdA, CDA and VVD.