This study focuses on the way Twitter users who are preoccupied with politics relate to traditional media during the French presidential and legislative elections 2017. Our quantitative and qualitative analyses of a collection of tweets published from January to June 2017 allow us to the identify media actors which are mentioned in the tweets of ten people interested in politics, the twitters’ attitudes toward these actors, as well as the nature of interaction between the twitters and the traditional media as represented in our corpus.