More evidence on how easily obsessives and trolls can dominate Twitter debates: THE Twitter conversation around Australian politics is so skewed that 1 per cent of users produce two-thirds of the conversation, research reveals. A mapping study of the Australian Twittersphere by the Queensland University of Technology's Institute for Creative Innovation revealed that a small group dominated political discussion that used the hashtag #auspol, the main political Twitter forum in Australia. "What you have is a small group of highly active participants," said project leader Axel Bruns.... "Basically you have this very small "in" group of people who talk about politics all the time - I mean, literally, there was one person in that group who sent 30,000 tweets over that period, which is massive." The user who single-handedly sent 3.5 per cent of the #auspol tweets over the eight months was not a journalist. "It was just someone who is presumably a politics nut," he said, explaining that the QUT ethics prevented him from identifying the individual. Thanks to reader BBqTalk.