The biggest trending topic for day 1 of SXSW was “Battle decks” with 146 tweets by 37 people. “iPad” had 47 tweets by 37 people. (Leading tag cloud as of 7pm last night is below. For a sense of scale, the smallest on the graphic is “stuffwedesignfor” with 47 tweets by 9 people.) After a… Continue reading Hottest day 1 panel? Day one of SXSW through the Taghive lens
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Twitter visualizations and maps
Great HBR article on slicings and dicings and visualizations of Twitter’s volcanic spew of content and data. Needs some mention of Twiangulate tweep maps. :) For starters, here’s a map of the connections among @Harvardbiz’s 100 biggest twitter followers.
How to search Twitter bios for data with Twiangulate
We’ve enabled search for Twitter bios. This should be useful for journalists and researchers trying to dig out new sources or to quantify the importance of a particular type of personality on Twitter. I’ve done some quick digging and turned up a bunch of fun factlets and trendoids. Journalists and Twitter For example, if you’re… Continue reading How to search Twitter bios for data with Twiangulate
Fun video explaining how to use Twiangulate to jump start a great list of Twitter friends
Created by Christopher Spenn:
Mapping twitter lists
For example, here’s a map of Jeff Jarvis’ Media Wonks list. The full list of 192 tweeps doesn’t map well — this is an <strike>incestuous</strike> highly networked world. So the map defaults to display only those tweeps with bilateral links (as opposed to a one directional follow) with more than 10% of the people on the… Continue reading Mapping twitter lists
Webs or trees?
Looking at efficient networks, Wired reports: “Tree branches have inspired efficient transit networks, but a new studyfinds inspiration in leaves. The curvy, connected leaf veins found insome plants are an efficient way to circumvent damaged areas andchannel nutrients, report researchers led by Eleni Katifori of theRockefeller University in New York City.”
Who do tweeps follow in common?
Use this search to determine who two or three tweeps follow in common. This is the killer search if you want to understand a social graph. * Enter the names of three senior people at a given company and you not only get the names of almost everyone (with a Twitter account) who works… Continue reading Who do tweeps follow in common?
Who follows the same tweeps
This search shows which influential followers that two or three tweeps have in common. (To eliminate the noise of the millions of spam tweeps and focus on intentional follows, we limit the results to tweeps who follow fewer than 11k people who have 1.5 times more followers than friends.) This search can help reveal who… Continue reading Who follows the same tweeps
Smallest twitter friends
Want to know who matters to someone? It’s usually not the biggest tweeps someone follows — heck almost everyone follows @BarackObama, @PerezHilton and @Mashable. It’s the smallest, the tweeps with just 36 or 281 followers. In the “under the radar” list, you more likely find a tweeter’s lawyer, sister, high school BFF, 40-something-mentor-just-getting-on-twitter, and/or… Continue reading Smallest twitter friends
Watching for new common twitter friends
The Watch List will notify you when two or three tweeps you’ve targeted jointly follow someone new. Good for finding rising stars in an industry, a competitor’s new customer, or a new hire in a company. We DM you personal updates weekly after your target tweeps follow someone new. To create a watch list, click… Continue reading Watching for new common twitter friends