Taking a break from all the politics, Brenda Moon and I have examined everything that goes on in the Australian Twittersphere on a given day. We found that older, more sociable uses of Twitter persist in spite of everything. Our article is out now in The Conversation and Nordicom Review. The research was made possible by the TrISMA LIEF project, funded by the …
Continue reading “One Day in the Life of a National Twittersphere”
The QUT Digital Media Research Centre (DMRC) has been running various digital methods training workshops internally as well as externally through the CCI Digital Methods Summer School and the Association of Internet Researchers Conference last year in Phoenix and coming up again this year in Berlin as part of #AoIR2016. As an extension to these …
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It’s been uncommonly quiet on this site for the last few weeks, as we’ve been busy with various projects, and overseas for a range of research activities. This may well prove to be the calm before the storm, though – we have a number of very exciting new social media research outcomes in the pipeline, …
Continue reading “Introducing Twitter Follower Accession Graphs”
For this blog, I have used data sets which include the first million and recent million IDs discussed in recent posts, in addition to new data from our CCI Data Scientist Troy Sadkowsky covering ID’s between 1000000000-1,000,999,999 (1 million Ids) and 1,001,000,000-1,011,000,000 (10 million Ids). This data covers both the first few months of Twitter …
Continue reading “A First Look at Twitter Ratios: Rise of the Lurkers?”
With my CCI colleague Jean Burgess, we have recently been tracking the development and use of Vine through our existing Twitter tools. More on accessing and tracking Vine will be forthcoming in future posts, but below we will discuss the first month of our Vine data, from 18 February to 18 March. It remains unclear …
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I spent most of last week at the Digital Humanities Australasia conference in Canberra (see my liveblog coverage), where I presented the latest iteration of our map of the Australian Twitter follower/followee network. This is now based on a total dataset of some 950,000 users, from which we’ve selected the most connected 120,000 for visualisation. …
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As we count down to the Queensland state election date, I’ve just published a new piece about the Twitter campaign in The Conversation – head over to the site to read it there. The centrepiece of the story is this graph of @mentions of the two leaders’ accounts throughout the election campaign, though – it …
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There’s just one more week to go until the end of the 2012 Queensland state election campaign – and as I write this, the tenor of the mainstream media coverage is that we’re heading for a landslide election win for the conservative LNP. So, let’s take another look at the way the election has played …
Continue reading “Queensland Election, Week 4: All Over But the Shouting?”
Having caught up with developments in week 2 in the previous post, let’s bring the story up to date by looking at activity patterns on Twitter during week 3 of the Queensland state election. This post covers the period of 5-11 Mar. 2012, then (except that 11 March isn’t quite over yet, so we’ll be …
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OK, so much for my plan to post a weekly update on the way the Queensland election is playing our on Twitter: I spent most of week 2 at a research workshop in Sydney, and didn’t get around to posting an update that weekend. So, this weekend, you get two for the price of one: …
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