Import social media networks from WhatsApp Chats using NodeXL Pro WhatsApp is a widely used personal messenger application owned by Meta. WhatsApp allows people to form chats with one or more people. WhatsApp chats can grow to include large numbers…
Marc Smith Content management on social media platforms is a complex issue. We are often confronted with the false choice that content on social media platforms should be either centrally controlled based on the values of their owners or they…
Thoughts on the many changes at Twitter. - Twitter is a private space, a commercial entity, and is a venue and host to interactions among many others, but it is not itself a public space. See this blog post. -…
NodeXL Pro has recently been updated to include support for Twitter API 2.0 and the Academic Twitter API service. Via the Twitter API 2.0 any Twitter user has “essential access” to 500k Tweets per month, restricted to the past seven…
A design and policy proposal for improving the democratic quality of social media Marc Smith and Ben Shneiderman The fear of filter bubbles is a common concern in social media discussions. The threat of closed worlds of perception that lead…
Politicians from around the world are using Twitter accounts for direct communication with the public. They share opinions, tweet to hashtags and connect to other accounts when retweeting and replying. The resulting communication patterns can be made visible with the…