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Geocode your Twitter network with NodeXL

As mobile devices become a major method for authoring and consuming social media, location data is increasingly a part of many posts, tweets, check-ins, and messages. Many Twitter clients, for example, can add the user’s current latitude and longitude to the metadata associated with a tweet. Other systems like Facebook Places, Google Latitude and Foursquare [...]

NodeXL TwitterScope: social media science in a bucket

by Dru! Can useful observations be made by studying the social media sea one bucket at a time? NodeXL has data import “spigots” for pulling social networks out of several social media systems including Twitter, YouTube, flickr, and email. Twitter networks of follows and followers, reply and mentions can be extracted based on either a [...]

Visualizing the connections among twitter users who tweet “oil spill” with NodeXL

The oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico is a topic of great concern to many people in twitter. This is the map of connections among people who tweeted the term "oil spill". There are lots of isolated authors,…

Workshop December 15th: Create your own twitter social network map

On December 15th in Mountain View, California join me for lunch and a workshop on creating social media network diagrams! We will provide a hands-on guide to creating maps of the collections of connections among people who tweet about various brands,…

Video: Using NodeXL to map the “digg” mentioning Twitter population

This is a brief demo video about NodeXL analyzing Twitter social network connections among a group of users who all mentioned the term "digg". 2009 - November - NodeXL - Demo - Mapping Twitter Social Networks "Digg" from Marc Smith…

Paper (using NodeXL!): Tweet the Debates: Understanding Community Annotation of Uncollected Sources

A recent paper makes use of NodeXL to create illustrations of data from connections among twitter users drawn from the United States presidential debates in October 2008. One illustration highlights the major clusters in the network. Tweet the Debates: Understanding…