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30 October 2018

MEPs on Twitter #4: the Italian budget row

By Martina Zaghi

The first insight from this week's monitoring is that the absolute number of tweets followed a declining trajectory, following the EP plenary days (22-25th of October). This signals a strong effect of the monthly gathering in Strasbourg on MEPs' Twitter activity.

23 October 2018

MEPs on Twitter #3: EPP takes the lead

By Martina Zaghi

MEPs of the EPP group tweeted more than all other parties and increased their amount of online conversations week after week. Also looking at the tweets-to-MEPs ratio, EPP deputies proved to be more active than previous weeks. They ranked third, behind the EFDD and the Greens/EFA.

16 October 2018

MEPs on Twitter #2: MEPs’ and citizens’ diverging priorities

By Martina Zaghi

This week MEPs mainly dealt with the Brexit negotiations (#brexit, #peoplesvote) and the local elections in Warsaw that took place on October 21 (#trzaskowski2018, #debatawarszawska). Instead, citizens mostly focused on Brexit and other UK issues (#brexit, #scrapthelicencefee).

9 October 2018

MEPs on Twitter #1 : Brexit under the spotlight

By Martina Zaghi

In the run-up to the 2019 European elections, EuVisions kicked off a special project centred around the current members of the EU Parliament. Out of a total number of 750 MEPs, we are tracking the online activity of 666 deputies on Twitter, through their profiles. Currently, we are collecting all the tweets sent by MEPs, as well as, the reactions to the former, in terms of retweets and replies.

16 January 2017

The race for the European Parliament’s Presidency as seen on Twitter

By Francesca Arcostanzo

Guy Verhofstadt is the most widely debated, and the most criticized, of the seven EP presidential candidates.

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MEPs on Twitter #4: the Italian budget row

MEPs on Twitter #3: EPP takes the lead

MEPs on Twitter #2: MEPs’ and citizens’ diverging priorities

MEPs on Twitter #1 : Brexit under the spotlight

The race for the European Parliament’s Presidency as seen on Twitter

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