{"id":3379,"date":"2019-04-04T03:47:20","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T03:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/precog.iiitd.edu.in\/blog\/?p=3379"},"modified":"2019-04-08T13:18:52","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T13:18:52","slug":"who-follows-whom-chaupalontwitter-political-satire-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precog.iiit.ac.in\/blog\/?p=3379","title":{"rendered":"Who-Follows-Whom?, #ChaupalOnTwitter, Political Satire Videos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Who-Follows-Whom? <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Earlier in our ongoing blog series on the forthcoming Indian parliamentary elections we had characterized<\/a> the following network of verified political handles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Today we share the results of analysing the follower\/following patterns of these handles amongst each other. To understand the interactions between the political handles (otherwise parties), we populate a table which shows the ratio of total number of followings<\/a> of one party to another by the total number of handles of that party. Below is the table with all the counts of followings of each party’s members against another party’s handles, e.g. total number of connections from all AAP accounts following BJP accounts is 912. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
Party<\/th>BJP<\/th>INC<\/th>AAP<\/th>SHS<\/th>SAD<\/th>NCP<\/th>SP<\/th>TDP<\/th>CPM<\/th>DMK<\/th>Others<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
BJP<\/td>48716<\/td>1357<\/td>503<\/td>358<\/td>274<\/td>184<\/td>108<\/td>345<\/td>20<\/td>27<\/td>1504<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
INC<\/td>1622<\/td>23821<\/td>306<\/td>27<\/td>11<\/td>181<\/td>225<\/td>42<\/td>83<\/td>57<\/td>1148<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
AAP<\/td>912<\/td>391<\/td>3621<\/td>9<\/td>11<\/td>8<\/td>61<\/td>15<\/td>31<\/td>7<\/td>406<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
SHS<\/td>508<\/td>51<\/td>17<\/td>559<\/td>2<\/td>30<\/td>1<\/td>4<\/td>1<\/td>0<\/td>25<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
SAD<\/td>314<\/td>4<\/td>0<\/td>2<\/td>640<\/td>1<\/td>0<\/td>1<\/td>0<\/td>0<\/td>31<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
NCP<\/td>274<\/td>231<\/td>47<\/td>28<\/td>0<\/td>280<\/td>10<\/td>6<\/td>3<\/td>0<\/td>73<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
SP<\/td>174<\/td>240<\/td>60<\/td>2<\/td>0<\/td>7<\/td>165<\/td>12<\/td>8<\/td>2<\/td>138<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
TDP<\/td>232<\/td>24<\/td>6<\/td>3<\/td>3<\/td>1<\/td>2<\/td>52<\/td>0<\/td>1<\/td>40<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
CPM<\/td>19<\/td>17<\/td>2<\/td>0<\/td>0<\/td>0<\/td>2<\/td>0<\/td>48<\/td>1<\/td>36<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
DMK<\/td>62<\/td>62<\/td>3<\/td>0<\/td>0<\/td>1<\/td>3<\/td>6<\/td>6<\/td>219<\/td>44<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Others<\/td>1450<\/td>678<\/td>131<\/td>19<\/td>29<\/td>46<\/td>69<\/td>38<\/td>54<\/td>16<\/td>630<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n

Next, we were interested to see, that on an average, how many handles of another\/same party does a political handle from a given party follow e.g. on an average how many BJP handles does one AAP handle follow. Using the table above, we calculated this for each party; for example, the average Shiv Sena (SHS) political handle follows ~17.47 other Shiv Sena political handles. An average INC handle follows 4.08 BJP handles while BJP followed 2.82 INC handles. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
Party<\/th>BJP<\/th>INC<\/th>AAP<\/th>SHS<\/th>SAD<\/th>NCP<\/th>SP<\/th>TDP<\/th>CPM<\/th>DMK<\/th>Others<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
BJP<\/td>101.28<\/td>2.82<\/td>1.05<\/td>0.74<\/td>0.57<\/td>0.38<\/td>0.22<\/td>0.72<\/td>0.04<\/td>0.06<\/td>3.13<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
INC<\/td>4.08<\/td>59.85<\/td>0.77<\/td>0.07<\/td>0.03<\/td>0.45<\/td>0.57<\/td>0.11<\/td>0.21<\/td>0.14<\/td>2.88<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
AAP<\/td>9.40<\/td>4.03<\/td>37.33<\/td>0.09<\/td>0.11<\/td>0.08<\/td>0.63<\/td>0.15<\/td>0.32<\/td>0.07<\/td>4.19<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
SHS<\/td>15.88<\/td>1.59<\/td>0.53<\/td>17.47<\/td>0.06<\/td>0.94<\/td>0.03<\/td>0.13<\/td>0.03<\/td>0.00<\/td>0.78<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
SAD<\/td>8.26<\/td>0.11<\/td>0.00<\/td>0.05<\/td>16.84<\/td>0.03<\/td>0.00<\/td>0.03<\/td>0.00<\/td>0.00<\/td>0.82<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
NCP<\/td>11.91<\/td>10.04<\/td>2.04<\/td>1.22<\/td>0.00<\/td>12.17<\/td>0.43<\/td>0.26<\/td>0.13<\/td>0.00<\/td>3.17<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
SP<\/td>9.67<\/td>13.33<\/td>3.33<\/td>0.11<\/td>0.00<\/td>0.39<\/td>9.17<\/td>0.67<\/td>0.44<\/td>0.11<\/td>7.67<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
TDP<\/td>25.78<\/td>2.67<\/td>0.67<\/td>0.33<\/td>0.33<\/td>0.11<\/td>0.22<\/td>5.78<\/td>0.00<\/td>0.11<\/td>4.44<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
CPM<\/td>1.58<\/td>1.42<\/td>0.17<\/td>0.00<\/td>0.00<\/td>0.00<\/td>0.17<\/td>0.00<\/td>4.00<\/td>0.08<\/td>3.00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
DMK<\/td>1.63<\/td>1.63<\/td>0.08<\/td>0.00<\/td>0.00<\/td>0.03<\/td>0.08<\/td>0.16<\/td>0.16<\/td>5.76<\/td>1.16<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Others<\/td>13.68<\/td>6.40<\/td>1.24<\/td>0.18<\/td>0.27<\/td>0.43<\/td>0.65<\/td>0.36<\/td>0.51<\/td>0.15<\/td>5.94<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n

We find that the diagonals in the tables to have the highest values, i.e. handles of a party follow other handles of their own party more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the table above, some interesting insights can be gathered. Most handles of political parties (but for those affiliated with Samajwadi Party (SP)) follow more BJP handles than INC handles. This also holds true for the category Others<\/em> which under its umbrella houses several small regional parties such as All India Trinamool Congress (AITC), Biju Janata Dal (BJD), and Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), to name a few. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Additionally, alliances can be clearly seen in some cases with handles from one party following a higher number of handles from the other party on an average. The average political handle affiliated with Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), Shiv Sena (SHS), and Telugu Desam Party (TDP), all parties supporting the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), follow many BJP handles as opposed to an INC handle on an average. For example, the average SAD handle follows as many as eight BJP handles, but hardly follows an INC handle. Also, parties such as Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and Samajwadi Party (SP), otherwise unaffiliated with either alliance, follow a larger number of one particular party; the average AAP handles follow BJP handles more, whereas, the average SP handle follows INC handles more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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