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Figure 33 - Complete history about the video's upload performed on YouTube through the"barackobamadotcom" profileFigure 34 - Daily tweets performed through the Twitter's profile of Barack Obama during theobserved periodIn particular, the first chart shows the complete history about the video’s uploadsperformed through the profile “barackobamadotcom”, over YouTube, startingfrom its creation date, thanks to the availability of the temporal informationconcerning the upload’s date of each video; the second, represents the history ofthe tweets performed, through the twitter’s profile of Barack Obama, starting fromthe date of registration to the application developed, this, due to the fact that, theTwitter’s API rate-limit doesn’t provide the possibility to get detailed information.Both charts, despite the time span considered is different, suggest that socialnetworks are used widely for propaganda. In fact, observing the figure 33, it’spossible to notice how, the United States Presidential Elections of the 2008, hasbeen conduced also through social networks and how, the same methods has beenadopted, even if in lesser extent, for the recent Midterm Elections.84