For popularity on Twitter, partisanship pays
Users who try to spread bipartisan links suffer from less popularity than partisan tweeters

Much digital ink has been spilled about whether our views make it out of the circle of our like-minded friends. A new study shows that, on Twitter at least, they don’t.
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