Pew: Politics Doesn’t Often Make Its Way Onto the Profiles of Twitter Users

Just 6% of survey respondents included related language in their bios

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Discussion about politics and breaking political news have become cornerstones of how Twitter is used over the years, but the biography information people include in their profiles on the social network rarely reflects that, according to a new study from Pew Research Center.

The think tank’s analysis of the Twitter handles of 1,021 survey respondents found that just 6% of their profiles included explicitly political language suggesting support for a political party, ideology, figure, organization or major movement.

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