“…Like in our study, they find that MPs mainly, though not exclusively, use Twitter as a "broadcasting tool" (Ahmed, Jaidka, & Cho, 2016, p. 1079Arnaboldi, Passarella, Conti, & Dunbar, 2017, p. 243;Frame & Brachotte, 2015, p. 282; see Jungherr, 2016 for an overview). Furthermore, these studies have also found that there is still some interaction taking place (Frame & Brachotte, 2015;Tromble, 2016a), especially in the early days of Twitter (Graham, Jackson, & Broersma, 2016, p. 774) and especially when the incoming @-mentions are positive and when the MP's party is not populist (Tromble, 2016a). Regarding the latter, we also show that the lower degree of interaction by MPs of populist parties still holds now Twitter is far more widespread then several elections ago (cf.…”