Table 3. Ranking of the ten most central hashtags (according to their values of betweenness centrality) within the DX and the CSX partisan communities.
While some of the DX community hashtags as #portichiusi (‘closed ports’) denotes the clear anti-migration position of such a community, the CSX community is characterised by slogans as #portiaperti (‘open ports’) openly promoting pro-migration positions. The normalized betweenness of each hashtag, multiplied by a factor equal to 108, is reported in parentheses.
| DX | ||||||
| 2019–05 | 2019–06 | 2019–07 | 2019–08 | 2019–09 | 2019–10 | 2019–11 |
| salvini (12) | salvini (6.0) | salvini (1.2) | openarms (4.5) | salvini (4.4) | salvini (2.9) | salvini (5.7) |
| italia (4.4) | fico (2.6) | lampedusa (1.0) | salvini (4.3) | italia (3.1) | malta (2.8) | italia (4.5) |
| governo (3.5) | italia (2.3) | seawatch3 (1.0) | lampedusa (2.2) | ong (3.1) | italia (2.6) | ong (3.2) |
| libia (3.2) | libia (2.3) | italia (0.9) | ong (2.1) | portichiusi (2.6) | lampedusa (2.0) | lamorgese (3.1) |
| portichiusi (2.9) | ong (2.3) | ong (0.9) | italia (2.1) | dalleparoleaifatti (2.1) | oceanviking (1.8) | libia (2.9) |
| m5s (2.6) | lampedusa (2.1) | francia (0.8) | bibbiano (1.8) | pd (2.0) | lamorgese (1.7) | lega (2.2) |
| pd (2.5) | portichiusi (2.0) | bibbiano (0.7) | portichiusi (1.6) | migrante (1.9) | conte (1.1) | governo (2.1) |
| seawatch3 (2.3) | pd (1.8) | carolarackete (0.7) | pd (1.5) | conte (1.9) | giustizia (1.1) | conte (1.8) |
| marejonio (2.3) | europa (1.7) | seawatch (0.7) | richardgere (1.3) | lampedusa (1.8) | trieste (1.0) | italiani (1.8) |
| europa (2.0) | giustizia (1.6) | libia (0.7) | gregoretti (1.0) | macron (1.8) | mattarella (0.9) | oceanviking (1.7) |
| CSX | ||||||
| 2019–05 | 2019–06 | 2019–07 | 2019–08 | 2019–09 | 2019–10 | 2019–11 |
| salvini (2.6) | salvini (2.4) | carolarackete (1.6) | openarms (3.3) | libia (3.8) | lampedusa (3.3) | italia (2.9) |
| facciamorete (1.8) | libia (2.3) | seawatch (1.5) | salvini (2.8) | marejonio (2.5) | libia (1.5) | libia (2.5) |
| europa (1.1) | giornatamondialedelrifugiato (1.6) | salvini (1.3) | decretosicurezzabis (2.1) | salvini (2.4) | erdogan (1.2) | oceanviking (1.7) |
| libia (1.0) | lavoro (1.5) | seawatch3 (1.3) | facciamorete (1.4) | oceanviking (2.0) | salvini (1.1) | lavoro (1.7) |
| milano (1.0) | italia (1.3) | italia (1.2) | lampedusa (1.3) | lavoro (1.9) | italia (1.1) | facciamorete (1.0) |
| seawatch (1.0) | seawatch (1.3) | libia (0.9) | gregoretti (1.0) | europa (1.7) | europa (1.0) | sicurezza (0.9) |
| sicurezza (0.8) | facciamorete (1.3) | lampedusa (0.9) | libia (0.9) | lampedusa (1.6) | 3ottobre (1.0) | salvini (0.7) |
| marejonio (0.8) | innovazione (0.9) | facciamorete (0.9) | oceanviking (0.8) | facciamorete (1.5) | malta (0.9) | formazione (0.7) |
| lampedusa (0.8) | roma (0.9) | mediterranea (0.8) | ong (0.7) | italia (1.4) | sostenibilità (0.7) | portiaperti (0.6) |
| lavoro (0.7) | lampedusa (0.8) | ong (0.8) | ai (0.6) | malta (1.3) | cloud (0.6) | europa (0.6) |