20110811-NodeXL-Twitter-gannett

From: www.connectedaction.net

 

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

 

See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gannett_Company

And: www.gannett.com/

 

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/6039180208/sizes/m/in/ph...

 

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

 

Top most between users:

@gannett

@poynter

@romenesko

@socialmediaclub

@marisacorser

@jodiontheweb

@yourmilitary

@spousecentrals

@govloop

@anonymous1mill

 

Graph Metric: Value

Graph Type: Directed

Vertices: 452

Unique Edges: 1372

Edges With Duplicates: 430

Total Edges: 1802

Self-Loops: 489

Connected Components: 165

Single-Vertex Connected Components: 156

Maximum Vertices in a Connected Component: 278

Maximum Edges in a Connected Component: 1535

Maximum Geodesic Distance (Diameter): 10

Average Geodesic Distance: 3.545185

Graph Density: 0.00580323

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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