The Role of Political Activism on Twitter

Abstract

This paper has investigated the role of political activism on Twitter to deepen the knowledge and understanding of the topic. Social media in general and Twitter in particular are effective social media platforms to perform political activities. Twitter has the ability to engage people to interact with each other and participate in political campaigns. Twitter can predict the elections outcomes to some extent and if big data from twitter is sued with right mix of tools, then more valid results can be derived through analyzing Twitter data. The findings of this review of literature suggest that Twitter is playing a positive role in political activism, and this role can be increased in future by bringing more focus to utility of Twitter. If researchers would give more specialized attention to the topic to get more insights, the Twitter can open new horizons for future research as well as political landscape of the world.