Following on from Friday’s post, in which we looked at a number of recent accounts on Twitter, this post considers the first million Twitter IDs. When did they join? As you can see from the above graph, which shows Account creation date along the horizontal and ID along the vertical, a spattering of accounts were …
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Who’s Joining Twitter? A look at 1 million recent IDs
Currently, at QUT Social Media HQ, we’re in the process of developing the new version of our Twitter capture software, led by CCI Data Scientist Troy Sadkowsky. During development, we’ve extracted a few interesting datasets, and this blog post is going to examine one of those; a set of one million Twitter IDs. This set …
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Twitter Research: New Articles on Politics, Methods, Metrics
In addition to Jean’s mainstream media appearances during February, we also have a few more recent publications which we haven’t had a chance to feature here on the site. So, here’s a quick round-up of the latest research from the Mapping Online Publics team and our various collaborators: Working with our good friend Cornelius Puschmann …
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Twitter and the Emergence of ‘Big Data’ Research in the Humanities
In a previous post, I mentioned the new M/C Journal article on the impact which Twitter, Inc.’s tightening of its API rules has on research into the uses of Twitter. The use of data from the Twitter API is just one example of a broader development here, which is now frequently described as ‘big data’ …
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New M/C Journal Article on the Harmful Effects of Twitter’s Corporate Policies
October has been a busy month – as those of you who follow my personal research blog may already have seen, our Mapping Online Publics colleague Tim Highfield and I have presented several papers at the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) conference in Manchester and the European Communication Conference (ECREA) in Istanbul. Additionally, I also …
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A Quick Recap of Twitter Research Approaches
Any self-respecting Internet researcher will already be aware that the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) is the place to keep track of what’s cutting edge in the field. On the AoIR mailing-list, there’s been an interesting discussion over the last few days about the available tools for tracking, capturing, and analysing Twitter data – and …
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Talking Digital Methods in Bristol
At the start of July, I had the pleasure of being one of the three speakers at the inaugural Digital Methods as Mainstream Methodology workshop in Bristol (I posted my presentation from the event here a little while ago). I’m happy to say that the DMMM folks have now also published a series of interviews …
CoSCI Keynote Video and New Article on Twitter and Journalism
At the start of the month, Jean and I had the pleasure of presenting a keynote at the Conference on Science and the Internet, organised by our ATN-DAAD research partners in Düsseldorf. I’m happy to report that videos of all three keynotes are now available on the CoSCI site – in particular, also check out …
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A Collection of Presentations on Twitter Research Methods
Over the past month, my colleagues Jean Burgess, Tim Highfield, Tanya Nitins and I have been travelling through Europe in various combinations to participate in workshops and conferences which address some of the key themes of our research – methodological innovation in social media research, and the role of Twitter in the wider media ecology. …
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Digital Methods in Bristol
I spent today at the University of the West of England in Bristol, as a guest of the Digital Methods as Mainstream Methodology network, a fabulous new initiative supported by the National Centre for Research Methods in the UK. At this first of three DMMM workshops to be held in 2012 and 2013, I presented …