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Visualization of Egyptian Revolution On Twitter
An anonymous reader writes "A visualization of the network of retweets with the hashtag #jan25 at February 11 2011, at the time of the announcement of Mubarak's resignation, is available. The data was collected using Gephi connected to the Twitter Streaming API, converting the users and retweets to nodes and edges in a dynamic network. Though the data represents only approximately 10% of the retweets, it's interesting to see the large flow of interconnected retweets in just one hour." I've attached the video if you want to watch it.
it's interesting to see the large flow of interconnected retweets in just one hour
I think the visualization of a slashdotting is more interesting.
What is this visualization supposed to look like? I get the impression of of a fertilized egg growing several layers of cells, but I'm unsure that is the intended effect.
It looks like some Artificial Intelligence from a SF movie.
RogerWilco the Adventurous Janitor
the Slashdot effect.
All this really shows me is that twitter is even more useless than I thought with this "retweeting" basically sending spam to all your followers
This reminds me of a visualization of neurons firing. I find the time and physical scale seem proportionate. Interesting.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2guKJfvq4uI
Achille Talon
Hop!
Looks like a 404 to me.
-Rick
"Most people in the U.S. wouldn't know they live in a tyrannical state if it walked up and grabbed their junk." - MyFirs
In order to convey useful information, the following would have been helpful:
That said, this may seem to be pretty pointless to the average Slashdotter. But I'm betting that sociologists and intelligence services are looking at ways to glean information from just such information graphs. Identify the retweet source nodes geographically and we could see if this was an organized 'astroturfing' or maybe send the secret police to those locations.
Have gnu, will travel.
It looks so simple... makes you wonder why more countries don't have Twitter revolutions /s
Revolution... in the sense that Egypt has one of these mobs-in-the-street things every so often. What comes around comes around again.
Democratic... in the sense of replacing one dictator with the military rallied on by the power elite.
Internet... in the sense that the first job of any twit/facebooker is to sit on his ass and read about something, repeat it, then think he had something to do with it.
Why is it Slashdot salivates over Twitter being used in these Revolutions but they look down upon Facebook?
Just kind of weird most of the action is going on Facebook
Hi,
Nodes are twitter users, and links appear between the nodes A and B when B retweeted a message of A containing the hashtag #jan25.
The visualization was made "in a hurry", so sorry for the missing legend ;)
A community of stick people got together to make some teeter totters and swing sets and then things just went horribly wrong.
It almost looks like a (bad) bacterial contagen. Talk about going viral! Know that your data are being analysed by spook houses the world over. ..."How an insurrection or revolution occurs over social media 101"... I liked how at one point the data went slow-motion to better highlight the number of connections happening all at once.
How can one conditionally attach a file based on the relative receptivity of the recipient, especially with multiple, unknown recipients? I think it's an erroneous statement. It should read "I've attached the video whether you want to watch it or not."
"I'm so moist I'm sticking to the leather." -Kermit the Frog on The Late Late Show
This seems entirely uninteresting. The only obvious conclusion you could draw from this data is that reaching a major milestone in a major social event triggers a major outburst of communications, which seems trivially obvious. For some interesting analysis on #jan25 tweets, see for instance this, an attempt to visualize influence levels between twitter users. It is interesting to note that there are relatively few highly "influential" tweeters, many of whom were arrested or detained at some point during the protest. This could possibly indicate that the Egyptian authorities were conducting a similar analysis.