From chambers to echo chambers: quantifying polarization with a second-neighbor approach applied to Twitter’s climate discussion

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This analysis reveals echo chambers and polarization dynamics in climate change discourse on X, indicating significant ideological patterns.

Polarization dynamics reveal strong ideological separation between climate believers and skeptics.
Retweet patterns indicate minimal overlap between echo chambers, highlighting a bimodal structure of viewpoints.
The method effectively classifies over half the retweeting population based on ideological chamber alignment.
Echo chamber structures remain stable over time, contributing to persistent ideological polarization.

Kolic et al. (2025) studied this question.

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This analysis reveals echo chambers and polarization dynamics in climate change discourse on X, indicating significant ideological patterns.