As the 2022 campaign draws to a close, here’s how federal, state and local candidates have used Twitter
One-in-five federal, state and local candidate tweets in 2022 have mentioned race, abortion, education or the economy.
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Samuel Bestvater is a senior data scientist on the Data Labs team at Pew Research Center, where he has studied a range of topics including social media usage by political figures as well as the general public; link rot and webpage deletion; and the geography of electric vehicle charging infrastructure. Bestvater holds a PhD in Political Science and Social Data Analytics from the Pennsylvania State University, and has been interviewed by a variety of outlets, including Axios and Vox. Sam’s research has also appeared in several academic journals, including Political Analysis and Journal of Peace Research.
