but note: « Even in the election year of 2016, politics was not a major field of Twitter for our respondents. In that year, among the four fields, the mean weight of politics is only .04, indicating on average less than 5 percent of the tweets were related to the politics field. Correspondingly, among 579 active Twitter users, only 5 percent (n = 29) were Pundits, whose tweets mainly emphasized politics. […] While a minor field, political engagement on Twitter increased in both weight and numbers of users in 2016. These numbers continued to increase in 2017. This finding seems counterintuitive to the omnipresent political tweets driving American news cycles. However, this field is likely a narrow one, with content dominated by elites and capital not easily obtained. »

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