Research has provided few findings on the patterns of communication and interaction between political and media actors in social media and how these interactions have evolved. The present study analyzes how journalists registered in the German Federal Press Conference interact with members of the German Bundestag (member of parliament) on Twitter and what type of content they exchange with each other. Based on two time periods (2016, 2020), the communicative practices and the patterns of interactions are examined. New insights into the conversational structure are generated through a combination of content and network analysis. The results indicate a trend in the use of Twitter among the actors as a political opinion medium. While the dissemination of opinions among politicians remains stable, journalists use Twitter interactions more to express a subjective and critical view and less for news coverage over time. Furthermore, the analysis notes that journalists generally comment in negative terms on the parties, except for the Greens. To some extent, the results indicate that the usual journalistic norms of objectivity and balance do not apply for interactions in the Twittersphere. To evaluate whether this pattern also applies to other countries, more comparative investigations in the domain of media–politics interactions on Twitter are needed.

关于社交媒体中政治和媒体参与者之间的交流和互动模式以及这些互动是如何演变的，研究几乎没有提供任何发现。本研究分析了在德国联邦新闻发布会上注册的记者如何在 Twitter 上与德国联邦议院成员（议员）互动，以及他们彼此交流的内容类型。基于两个时间段（2016 年、2020 年），研究了交流实践和互动模式。通过内容和网络分析的结合，产生了对对话结构的新见解。结果表明演员使用 Twitter 作为政治舆论媒介的趋势。虽然政客之间的意见传播保持稳定，随着时间的推移，记者更多地使用 Twitter 互动来表达主观和批判性观点，而不是为了新闻报道。此外，分析指出，除绿党外，记者通常对政党发表负面评论。在某种程度上，结果表明客观和平衡的通常新闻规范不适用于 Twittersphere 中的互动。为了评估这种模式是否也适用于其他国家，需要在 Twitter 上的媒体-政治互动领域进行更多的比较调查。结果表明，客观和平衡的通常新闻规范不适用于 Twittersphere 中的互动。为了评估这种模式是否也适用于其他国家，需要在 Twitter 上的媒体-政治互动领域进行更多的比较调查。结果表明，客观和平衡的通常新闻规范不适用于 Twittersphere 中的互动。为了评估这种模式是否也适用于其他国家，需要在 Twitter 上的媒体-政治互动领域进行更多的比较调查。