Politicians on Social Media. The online database of members of national parliaments on Twitter

In this article, we present the new online database Politicians on Social Media (https://www.politiciansonsocialmedia.com), which is intended for both academics and public. This was created with aim of being continuously updated providing relevant information politicians’ activity social media. We first used data from to analyze Twitter. networking site increasingly at forefront scientific interest due its growing number users. It often examined respect how politicians use it. For politicians, Twitter an opportunity not only inform people about their activities but also communicate directly voters. Attention focused members parliaments (MPs). examine many MPs have adopted active they are determinants adoption by MPs. analyzed all countries European Union, Free Trade Association, United Kingdom. Therefore, research includes 32 countries. Our analysis revealed that most in Western such as France, Ireland, Netherlands, Spain, or Kingdom, while Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia least. very actively Spanish British By contrast, least post-communist Bulgaria Romania. correlation showed a strong association between users Specifically, more country correlates