“All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace” Twitter Echochamber

I didn’t follow the twitter backchannel surrounding the second part of Adam Curtis’ documentary series All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace, but I did see a tweet that made me grab a snapshot of the friend connections between folk who were tweeting around it using the awobmolg hashtag. The following shows the major connected component (unconnected tweeps are filtered out) of a network built up from folk using the hashtag and how they’re connected (node size a function of authority, I think?):

I guess you could argue that this provides a glimpse over part of the UK’s tweeting digerati community, though I’m not sure what part…? Nodes are layed out using a force directed layout algorithm and clustered according to modularity group. I think I can spot culture/education sector, open gov/data advocacy and media folk clusters in there. If you want to look deeper, here’s the data set I grabbed as a Gephi/gdf file.

@mhawksey also managed to grab approx 1500 or so of the #awobmolg tagged tweets into the Archive tab of this spreadsheet: awobmolg tweets

And by the by, here are cotags used in tweets alongside the #awobmolg tagged tweets I captured:

FIFA
EgyptsLostCities
Fuller
Cybernetics
BBC
therapeuticcommunity
Chaos
synergy
AWOBMOLG
Springwatch
TheMatrix
BGT
gameofthrones
politics
awobmolg
Bruntland
BBC2
anarchy
TheMotherofAllDemos
downsideofrain
TheStoryofIreland
marking
springwatch
RDLaing
powerofTV
spacearchaeology
gkchesterton
bbc
poetry
uep
notanetutopian
boomboom
systems
Bilderberg
adamcurtis
PaulMertonsHollywood
biofeedbackloop
allwatchedoverbymachinesoflovinggrace
socialmediacommodification
GameOfThrones
curtis
mature
bioweb
OctoberGallery
Freedom
shsn
BlatterOut
IIW
superinjunctions
banks
ple
psychoville
bgt
wtf
bollocks
AWObMoLG
ecosystems
buckyballs
Bbc2
alife
glee
anarchism
NIN
Observer
StarttheWeek
ecosystem
Twitter
silos
fb
UKUncut
Amortality
feedbackloop
honestly
eek
balancedequilibrium
Awobmolg
anarchist
bbc2
BBCTwo

ps via @josswinn, an archive of Adam Curtis films