Polish Political Twitter Accounts

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.

Data sources

The initial version of the list combined the following available component resources:

• a list of political Twitter accounts by Mateusz Puszczyński

• a list of Polish Twitter accounts (political section) by Klub Chwila

• TOP 50 Twitter political account list by wirtualnemedia.pl

• TOP 50 Twitter political journalist accounts by wirtualnemedia.pl

• data offered by ePaństwo Foundation.

The list was supplemented with accounts automatically retrieved from Twitter and then manually verified by experts:

• based on the entries from the Polish Political Ontology all Twitter accounts compatible with the first name-surname pattern were collected

• for every candidate account every friend and follower of the account was retrieved
• 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
• 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.

The list

user_list.txt

The file is TAB-separated. First column contains Twitter ID of a user, second column his/her Twitter username.

Acknowledgements

Polish Political Ontology was created in scope of the TrendMiner 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).