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…
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…
SMR Foundation collaborators Itai Himelboim, Marc A. Smith, Lee Rainie, Ben Shneiderman and Camila Espina have recently published the article Classifying Twitter Topic-Networks Using Social Network Analysis in Social Media + Society (January-March 2017: 1 –13). Abstract As users interact via…
Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Internet Research Center was interviewed by Bob Garfield on OnTheMedia this week about the recently released report on mapping Twitter topic networks. The report found six distinct patterns of social media networks in Twitter: divided, unified, fragmented, clustered, and in and out hub…