Network analysis is used to study the Slovenian political discussion appearing on Twitter in the lead-up to 2019 European Parliamentary elections. We describe a network made up of 2,867 users and 40,670 tweets, identify central users, study the flow of information through retweets, and characterise user communities. The most active users include individuals who are publicly less well-known, while the most influential users feature political parties, politicians and known personalities. The information flow network consists of ideologically homogeneous communities, hinting at fragmentation of the public sphere and the polarisation of online political discussion. The results provide one of the first overviews of information flows on Slovenian Twitter through the lens of social network polarisation
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