Recurrent Patterns of User Behavior in Different Electoral Campaigns: A Twitter Analysis of the Spanish General Elections of 2015 and 2016

Figure 1

Scheme that shows the method used to build the networks of retweets. In panel 1), user posts a message starting an information flow that reaches user , who decides to retweet it. In panel 2), the message retweeted by is read by who in turn retweets it again. In panel 3) the three users are information transmitters and in the last panel the resulting retweet network is shown.