How We Know Us

Tag: twitter

  • Visualizing Conversation Clusters on Twitter

    2.5 million tweeters having 11 million conversations.  Pay attention to the clustering. Song: Dance on Vaseline (Thievery Corporation Remix) by David Byrne (YouTube link here)

  • Twitter Communication is Scale Free

    Creating a network from a sample of communications from approximately 900,000 people on Twitter, the distribution of distinct communication partners result fits the definition of a scale-free network.  The power is a little higher than scale-free networks usually described for social networks (2<k<3), but not much.

  • I Hear Twitter

    Friendship, it seems, is more accurately demonstrated than described.  We usually don’t do a good job accurately reporting our friendships when questioned.  So, here’s a look at a slightly higher measurement of friendship: conversations. If you squint (or click to enlarge the image) you can find a little yellow dot.  That’s me.  The connections between…

  • Beautiful, Beautiful Data

    Flip over at InfoChimps has put together a massive scrape of twitter.  While trying to figure out how to process it all, I’ve drawn one day’s scrape* (20-Dec-08).  Many thanks to Flip and InfoChimps for the wow work, and doubly so for making publicly available.