A interação de grupos a partir dos memes do perfil "Sensacionalista" no Twitter

Abstract

This work describes the study of how shares are boosted and the reach of memes takes place, having the profile of Sensacionalista group on Twitter as an object and the time lapse in a period of the second half of 2021. With a research in several bibliographic materials aiming to enrich and create support for the verification of the boosting mechanism considering the dynamics of the social network, the relationships between users and their interactions with the posted memes. In addition, a field research was carried out through Twitter data mining with subsequent production of graphs and an analysis was applied based on the information produced in the light of the theoretical framework studied. Finally, it was concluded that the boost of memes in the observed period was due to the strength of the profile followers themselves, through the tools normally made available by the social network, and through the use of social network robots, the bots, but without use of extra or paid algorithms.