Another conference I’m not at, this time ALT-C, so time for another blatant attempt to raise my profile at the event even if I’m not there with another Twitter related hack…;-) This time, a little tool to help you explore the extent of your Twitter network within a community of people using a particular hashtag. … Continue reading “Personal Twitter Networks in Hashtag Communities”
Over the last few weeks I’ve been messing around more than I should with Twitter, and in particular trying to get a feel for how we might use hashtag communities as a well of identifying and growing community structures in a particular topic area (see posts all over OUseful.info for more details). A couple of … Continue reading “Searching for Twitter Hashtags and Finding Hashtag Communities”
In several recent posts, I’ve shown a variety of network diagrams based on who’s following whom in various twitter hashtag community networks. In this post, I thought I show a couple more, demonstrating the power of the visual approach for getting a quick feel for the structure of a particular community. First up, here’s the … Continue reading “Structural Differences in Hashtag Communities: Highly Interconnected or Not?”
Following on from the sketched ideas relating to estimating the Potential Audience Size for a Hashtag Community?, here are a few quick doodles around the graph representation of the tag users – followers graph that explore the extent to which we can use quite simple counts and analyses to get a feel for how the … Continue reading “More Thoughts on Potential Audience Metrics for Hashtag Communities”
Last night I spent an hour or two tinkering with the dev version of my prototype hashtag community explorer (Personal Twitter Networks in Hashtag Communities), in part prompted by a tweet from @sleslie, thinking about what sorts of features might help you decide whether or not to follow someone new from that community. NOTE – … Continue reading “Finding New People to Follow in a Hashtag Community”
So over the last few days, there’s been so much chat around the roll out of official Twitter lists that some people have probably even blogged about them. Ad hoc lists (aka ‘groups’) have been available for some time on a variety of twitter clients, of course, but now there’s ‘central support’ so it seems … Continue reading “What’s Happening Now: Hashtags on Twitter Lists”
A couple of weeks ago, I put started cobbling together some clunky scripts to collate network data files from lists of people twittering with a particular hashtag (First Glimpses of the OUConf10 Hashtag Community). I’ve got a Twapperkeeper key now, so the next step is to pull archived hashtagged tweets from there to generate my … Continue reading “Mulling Over an Idea for Hashtag Community Maturity Profiles”
…got that?;-) Or in other words, this is a post looking at some visualisations of the #ddj hashtag community… A couple of days ago, I was fortunate enough to attend a Data Driven Journalism round table (sort of!) event organised by the European Journalism Centre. I’ll try to post some notes on it, err, sometime; … Continue reading “Doodlings Around the Data Driven Journalism Round Table Event Hashtag Community”
As privacy erodes further and further, and more and more people start to reveal where they using location services, how easy is it to identify communities based on location, say, or postcode, rather than hashtag? That is, how easy is it to find people who are colocated in space, rather than topic, as in the … Continue reading “Discovering Co-location Communities – Twitter Maps of Tweets Near Wherever…”
Years ago, I used the Javascript Infovis Toolkit to put together a handful of data visualisations around the idea of the “social life of a URL” by looking up bookmarked URLs on delicious and then seeing who had bookmarked them and using what tags (delicious URL History – Hyperbolic Tree Visualisation, More Hyperbolic Tree Visualisations … Continue reading “Visualising Delicious Tag Communities Using Gephi”
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