20110811-NodeXL-Twitter-usatoday graph

From: www.connectedaction.net

 

Connections among the Twitter users who recently tweeted the word USAToday when queried on August 11, 2011, scaled by numbers of followers (with outliers thresholded). Connections created when users reply, mention or follow one another.

 

Layout using the "Group Layout" composed of tiled bounded regions. Clusters calculated by the Clauset-Newman-Moore algorithm are also encoded by color.

 

A larger version of the image is here: www.flickr.com/photos/marc_smith/6033123865/sizes/o/

 

Betweenness Centrality is defined here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrality#Betweenness_centrality

 

Top most between users:

@usatoday

@todayinthesky

@usatyourlife

@barbdelollis

@usatodaymoney

@borowitzreport

@mok_oh

@aviationblogs

@usatodaytech

@only398

 

Graph Metric: Value

Graph Type: Directed

Vertices: 1000

Unique Edges: 1629

Edges With Duplicates: 891

Total Edges: 2520

Self-Loops: 984

Connected Components: 384

Single-Vertex Connected Components: 366

Maximum Vertices in a Connected Component: 586

Maximum Edges in a Connected Component: 1870

Maximum Geodesic Distance (Diameter): 10

Average Geodesic Distance: 3.627767

Graph Density: 0.001301301

NodeXL Version: 1.0.1.174

 

More NodeXL network visualizations are here: www.flickr.com/photos/marc_smith/sets/72157622437066929/

 

NodeXL is free and open and available from www.codeplex.com/nodexl

 

NodeXL is developed by the Social Media Research Foundation (www.smrfoundation.org) - which is dedicated to open tools, open data, and open scholarship.

 

The book, Analyzing social media networks with NodeXL: Insights from a connected world, is available from Morgan Kaufmann and from Amazon.

 

Marc Smith on Twitter.

 

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