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Table 5 The top ten supporters of Leave and Remain, ordered by their Twitter h-index

From: Stance and influence of Twitter users regarding the Brexit referendum

 

Posted tweets

Retweeted tweets

Total retweets

h-index

Twitter user

June 24

June 23

Leave

@vote_leave (Vote Leave)

1567

1004

256,463

297

284

@theordinaryman2 (TheOrdinaryMan)

1736

1660

86,728

128

127

@Vote_LeaveMedia (Vote Leave Media)

1208

891

40,379

100

100

@PrisonPlanet (Paul Joseph Watson)

136

107

33,960

89

79

@RedHotSquirrel (Robert Kimbell)

1034

579

17,090

62

62

@davidicke (David Icke)

78

70

6996

62

58

@DVATW (David Vance)

338

273

14,225

61

57

@labourleave (Labour Leave)

162

93

11,263

55

52

@ukleave_eu (#Brexit #Article50)

954

278

8503

52

52

@EUVoteLeave23rd (SUPPORTING B.)

3833

1439

18,492

52

52

Neutral

@TheEconomist (The Economist)

334

281

29,357

107

103

@BBCNews (BBC News (UK))

769

379

33,773

91

88

@SkyNews (Sky News)

622

503

27,479

75

68

@jeremycorbyn (Jeremy Corbyn MP)

52

48

14,578

41

34

Remain

@guardian (The Guardian)

434

356

19,304

70

68

@Independent (The Independent)

566

356

14,575

60

56

@TheGreenParty (Green Party)

132

83

8894

51

47

@itvnews (ITV News)

383

248

8783

45

41

 @UK__News (UK News)

95

97

5894

40

40

@BBCr4today (BBC Radio 4 Today)

153

119

6399

39

39

@UKLabourIN (LabourInForBritain)

92

61

4068

37

31

@The_TUC (TradesUnionCongress)

187

180

4574

34

34

@wdjstraw (Will Straw)

116

85

3805

33

33

@LibDems (Liberal Democrats)

155

66

3765

33

25

  1. The columns in the table show the Twitter user, the number of their tweets, the number of these tweets retweeted, the total number of retweets, and the h-index until June 24, 2016. For comparison, the h-index is given also until June 23