This project examines recent changes in the interconnectedness of the latest 300,000 Democratic/Republican and Tory/Labour Twitter followers in the US and UK. Like the apartheid-era South African society depicted in A World Apart, the US appears to be characterized by a high degree of political polarisation in the form of self-assigned echo chambers (i.e. they are more likely to be following only one party).
The notebook can be found here.
The data can be found here.
Sources:
Twitter (2022) https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api
Earth Data Science (2020) https://www.earthdatascience.org/courses/earth-analytics/get-data-using-apis/use-twitter-api-r/