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.

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Question

[Even on Slashdot FOE]

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.

Re: Interesting?

[Desler]

But...but...this is totally different because it involves Twitter!!! Twiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitter!!!!

"I've attached the video if you want to watch it"

[barakn]

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."