[Air-L] First simple request: directory of twitter accounts for organizations?

[Jakob Jünger]

Hi all,

interestingly, though identifying accounts is a common task, no common
protocols or methods have evolved so far. Cross-checking web links,
directories, social media search and so on is definitely nessessary to
get high quality lists. Each of the source brings its own bias.

I'd like to add one point from my experience.  Some time ago,  we
systematically compared sampling accounts of German political
organizations using traditional organization directories (the Oeckl)
with online directories (plugragraph). The online source most likely
will bias your sample towards more active accounts. Depending on the
research question, this poses problems (for example, if you analyse
activity indicators such as number of posts/comments/likes/shares).

Best
Jakob

Am 06.09.2020 um 03:32 schrieb Muira McCammon:
> I began this journey years ago by going individually to each US fed
> agency's homepage and seeing which official social media accounts were
> listed. I then cross-checked this process by searching for each agency's
> name in Twitter. Another level of checking entailed seeing which accounts
> the govt agencies themselves were following. Some initiatives have popped
> up over the years to try to keep track of govt Twitter accounts (Politwoops
> and Voxgov and even Digital.gov), but they are far from exhaustive. I guess
> I'm saying this, because it's good to remember that many orgs these days
> will have one primary Twitter account but then will launch smaller accounts
> related to specific initiatives/campaigns/etc. Often, it's really hard to
> find these unless you dig into who specific accounts are following.

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