In the NodeXL graph gallery, various graphs convey a lot of information, not only the size and structure of the network, but also the words, hashtags, and URLs people used. The graph below represents a network of 5,181 Twitter users whose tweets in the requested range contained “Toyota,” or who... More
How many times have we engaged in a ‘lively’ political debate on Twitter? How many times have we tweeted our absolute passion for a certain cause on Twitter? How many times have we followed a global event through a live-tweet instead of watching it on television or listening to it... More
Ting Chen Since the founding in 2006, Twitter has become a popular social network platform for internet users to acquire information, follow news updates and share opinions with a certain amount of other Twitter users. Until today, as Nikos Smyrnaios (2018) noted, Twitter remains its independence as one of the only... More
The Trend of Social Network Analysis As the social network sites (SNSs) play an increasingly prominent role in our lives, more studies are conducted to examine the interactions between SNS users within the theoretical frame of network analysis of social science. Donath and boyd (2004) argued that SNSs could accumulate the... More
Marc Smith, Lee Rainie, Ben Shneiderman and Itai Himelboim found six conversational archetypes on Twitter conversation networks. They are Polarized Crowd, Tight Crowd, Brand Cluster, Community Clusters, Support Network and Broadcast Network. In my personal view, though these six different types can’t cover all the conversations happening on Twitter, they... More