Twitter users reveal their political views even if they do not post about politics, the researchers at Duke University found. The researchers analyzed whom politicians followed on twitter and who followed them, then they ranked the politicians on a political spectrum from the far right to the far left.

We already know we cannot escape from something we have said online, but as it turns out our connections are also revealing! The research also showed that the more liberal accounts have very little in common with the conservative accounts.

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