Figure 3
Supporters dynamics. (a) Absolute number and (b) percentage of supporters of Trump (red, Pro-Trump or Anti-Clinton) and Clinton (blue, Pro-Clinton or Anti-Trump) inside the strongly connected giant component as a function of time. Total number and (c) percentage of users (d) labeled as Trump (red) and as Clinton (blue) in our entire Twitter population as a function of time. The opinion in the strongly connected giant component is clearly in favor of Donald Trump and shifts slightly in favor of Hillary Clinton only occasionally, such as during the two Conventions. Taking into account all the users in our dataset, the popular opinion is generally strongly in favor of Hillary Clinton (d) in contrast with the strongly connected giant component (b). In (b) and (d) the data adds to 100% when considering the unclassified users (\(\simeq \)4.5%). The popularity of Donald Trump peaks before the conventions and before the election, however Hillary Clinton dominates Twitter opinion, in particular during important events, such as the conventions, the presidential debates and the election, coinciding with large positive fluctuations in the total number of users.
