<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><!DOCTYPE article  PUBLIC '-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN'  'http://www.docbook.org/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd'><article><articleinfo><title>PolishPoliticalTwitterAccounts</title><revhistory><revision><revnumber>6</revnumber><date>2019-03-03 12:38:51</date><authorinitials>MaciejOgrodniczuk</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>5</revnumber><date>2014-11-19 21:13:38</date><authorinitials>MateuszKopec</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>4</revnumber><date>2014-11-17 15:18:01</date><authorinitials>MaciejOgrodniczuk</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>3</revnumber><date>2014-11-17 14:21:01</date><authorinitials>MateuszKopec</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>2</revnumber><date>2014-11-17 10:52:40</date><authorinitials>MaciejOgrodniczuk</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>1</revnumber><date>2014-11-17 10:52:08</date><authorinitials>MaciejOgrodniczuk</authorinitials></revision></revhistory></articleinfo><section><title>Polish Political Twitter Accounts</title><para>The Polish Political Twitter Account List is a resource gathering verified accounts of causative and opinion-forming actors from the Polish political scene (politicians, parties, NGOs, journalists). It currently contains 766 accounts. </para><section><title>Data sources</title><para>The initial version of the list combined the following  available component resources: </para><itemizedlist><listitem><para><ulink url="https://twitter.com/socjokracja/politycy/members">a list of political Twitter accounts by Mateusz Puszczyński</ulink> </para></listitem><listitem><para><ulink url="http://www.holdys.pl/polskitwitter/">a list of Polish Twitter accounts (political section) by Klub Chwila</ulink>  </para></listitem><listitem><para><ulink url="http://www.wirtualnemedia.pl/artykul/top50-polskich-politykow-na-twitterze-palikot-sikorski-i-tusk-na-czele">TOP 50 Twitter political account list by wirtualnemedia.pl</ulink> </para></listitem><listitem><para><ulink url="http://www.wirtualnemedia.pl/artykul/kuzniar-piasecki-i-sekielski-liderami-dziennikarskiego-twittera-najaktywniejsi-janecki-warzecha-i-pereira-top50">TOP 50 Twitter political journalist accounts by wirtualnemedia.pl</ulink>  </para></listitem><listitem><para><ulink url="http://epf.org.pl/app/webroot/api/dane/">data offered by ePaństwo Foundation</ulink>. </para></listitem></itemizedlist><para>The list was supplemented with accounts automatically retrieved from Twitter and then manually verified by experts: </para><itemizedlist><listitem><para>based on the entries from the <ulink url="http://zil.ipipan.waw.pl/PolishPoliticalTwitterAccounts/PolishPoliticalOntology#">Polish Political Ontology</ulink> all Twitter accounts compatible with the first name-surname  pattern were collected </para></listitem><listitem><para>for every candidate account every friend and follower of the account was retrieved </para></listitem><listitem><para>the list was filtered using the methodology of the self-confirming structure, i.e. by tracking only accounts followed by verified accounts and being followers and friends of verified accounts of the largest Polish political parties </para></listitem><listitem><para>finally the remaining candidate accounts were manually verified and all inactive accounts (by people who did not publish any tweets retrievable by Twitter API) were removed. </para></listitem></itemizedlist></section><section><title>The list</title><para><ulink url="http://zil.ipipan.waw.pl/PolishPoliticalTwitterAccounts/PolishPoliticalTwitterAccounts?action=AttachFile&amp;do=get&amp;target=user_list.txt">user_list.txt</ulink> </para><para>The file is TAB-separated. First column contains Twitter ID of a user, second column his/her Twitter username. </para></section><section><title>Acknowledgements</title><para><ulink url="http://zil.ipipan.waw.pl/PolishPoliticalTwitterAccounts/PolishPoliticalOntology#">Polish Political Ontology</ulink> was created in scope of the <ulink url="http://clip.ipipan.waw.pl/TrendMiner">TrendMiner</ulink> project co-financed by the European Commission from the FP7 programme (grant agreement number 287863) and from the Polish Ministry of Science support programme (grant agreement number 3177/7.PR/2014/2). </para></section></section></article>