There is a group of political tweeters that nobody is studying: the detached

• Published in: Linguistic Frontiers 2022-09, Vol.5 (2), p.25-40
• Main Author: González-List, Verónica
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• ISSN: 2544-6339; 2544-6339
• DOI: 10.2478/lf-2022-0014

Through a review of the literature, the present article outlines the interaction forms that happen on Twitter when the participation is political, intending to show that the conversations made by the most significant collective on Twitter which is formed by ordinary users that post tweets 24/7 any given day with the sole intention to make public its political views, are invisible for the social studies. The actual political conversations attended by the social studies are related to parties, civic organizations, street manifestation, social activism, or some political manifestation that requires organization. The subject is important because these ordinary users with no agendas related to the formal or informal forms of political conversations known by the social studies form the biggest sector in the political social network par excellence, and no one is studying them. We propose the adjective ‘detached’ users to refer to these Twitter users.