2.5 million tweeters having 11 million conversations. Pay attention to the clustering.
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Twitter Communication is Scale Free
Creating a network from a sample of communications from approximately 900,000 people on Twitter, the distribution of distinct communication partners result fits the definition of a scale-free network. The power is a little higher than scale-free networks usually described for social networks (2<k<3), but not much.
I Hear Twitter
Friendship, it seems, is more accurately demonstrated than described. We usually don’t do a good job accurately reporting our friendships when questioned. So, here’s a look at a slightly higher measurement of friendship: conversations.
If you squint (or click to enlarge the image) you can find a little yellow dot. That’s me. The connections between dots are conversations that take place within my “hearing” on twitter. With research suggesting people as far as three degrees away from you hold a statistically significant level of influence across varied subjects; don’t you wonder who is influencing you?
Beautiful, Beautiful Data
Flip over at InfoChimps has put together a massive scrape of twitter. While trying to figure out how to process it all, I’ve drawn one day’s scrape* (20-Dec-08). Many thanks to Flip and InfoChimps for the wow work, and doubly so for making publicly available.
