One Per Cent: Twitter shows chatting doesn't have to be political

posted on 18/02/2012 10:14

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2012/02/twitter.html

According to a new study by the New England Complex Systems Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, it’s a bit of both. People on Twitter indeed link to people who share their interests, but not always their political views. Whether fellow football or rock fans ever tweet to each other about their different attitudes to politics, however, is not clear.