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Burak Arikan is an artist and researcher who focuses on creating networked systems that evolve with the interactions of people and machines. He has also been previously featured in VC. One of his latest pieces has been an experiment with the Twitter API, where he tracked the growth of his Twitter network over a period of 3 weeks. Burak was trying to understand how connections and particular clusters might expand or contract over time. The first image is a portrait of Burak's Twitter graph on the first week of the experiment, when he was following 80 people. Burak only mapped the interconnections between friends, removing himself from the picture, and then labeled the 6 main clusters: "MIT", "silicon valley", "web programming", "generative art", "Istanbul", and "web business tr (Turkey)". As he explains: "The silicon valley cluster is large and dense compared to others. The MIT cluster is almost like a clique (every person connected to every other). Generative art is quite close to Silicon Valley, mostly bridged through the user neb. Obviously the Turkish web business cluster has many connections to the Silicon Valley, techcrunch being a major bridge here. The web programming cluster is very small, surprisingly it is connected to Silicon Valley only through the user al3x, who works at Twitter". To test the importance of key bridging users, Burak decided to remove them and see if the graph still hold together. Many of these changes are represented on his map of week 3 (second image) where more bridges and denser clusters are discernible within his network of 158 people. Apart from a careful analysis of some of the patterns emerging in this experiment, which can be further explored in his blog post, Burak poses an important question worth considering: "Do these people mind abo
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This is a 300dpi map of the top 50 PR twitterers (as per Stephen Waddington's analysis) and the interrelationships between them.
To generate this:
We first crawled all the accounts for "friends" (accounts that they follow) and "followers" (accounts that follow them). This is a profligate use of resources because we were always going to throw away a massive load of that data. But it's always more interesting to start with a large data set. You don't know what you're going to find.
Then I wrote a quick-and-dirty perl script to process the data looking only for those instances where one of the top 50 followed another.
Then we dropped everything into NetDraw (if you are at all interested in this stuff, you really should get hold of a copy and start reading around the subject.) We laid out the chart so that the people who have the most peer-group followers are in the centre of the chart - and to make it even more obvious, we sized their nodes according to the number of peer-group followers that they have.
So people on the peripheries (like me - mediaczar) are peripheral to the community, and those in the middle are central. Obvious, huh?
This chart already shows a massive difference between our analysis (as it progresses) and the raw data from Wadds's list. There are some really good reasons for this, which I'll go into on the blog.
For more on this, see this post on Twitter Social Network Analysis
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For the past few months I've been informally watching how the popular microblogging site Twitter has been tracking vs. FriendFeed on Compete.com. In many ways FriendFeed has been the most natural beneficiary from an ongoing plague of downtime problems that Twitter has been struggling with over the course of the past few months. During these downtime problems FriendFeed's growth has been dramatically eclipsing Twitter's.
Today Compete.com released their July monthly numbers and it would appear that at least last month Twitter has regained much of their growth that they lost in May and June. For the month of July, Compete.com is reporting that Twitter grew at a monthly rate of 21.9% vs. FriendFeed's growth of 26.7%. This compares with June growth numbers of 5.4% for Twitter and 33.7% for FriendFeed.
While I still think that we will see FriendFeed track with more users than Twitter within the next year, it would appear that as Twitter has regained much of their site stability that this might not be as easy as first thought.
Of course Twitter and FriendFeed are still two very different sites and very different animals -- albeit two of the fastest growing social network sites on the web today. Personally most of my microblogging activity has moved from Twitter to FriendFeed for a few key reasons.
1. Photography is very important to me and FriendFeed represents visually better than Twitter does. As a text only platform Twitter misses much of the richness that photographs can provide. Although FriendFeed needs to better incorporate blog post imagery with blog RSS feeds, by allowing users to share images direclty as well as incorporating Flickr, Zooomr, SmugMug and Picasa imagery into the mix I think FriendFeed is a more visually stimulating site.
2. The conversations happen at FriendFeed in ways that they do not at Twitter. Because FriendFeed groups conversations as single items, conversations are easier to follow and monitor at FriendFeed.
3. The hide functionality on FriendFeed allows users much greater control over the "noise" that is frequently generated from a microblogging platform.
4. FriendFeed's "best of" section consistently provides interesting content.
You can find me on Twitter here and on FriendFeed here.
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Greater Manchester Police is showing people what officers and staff face in 24 hours by providing the most extensive behind the scenes access in its history.
From 5am on Tuesday 14 October for 24 hours the Force will be tweeting all the calls it receives as well as providing an insight into some of the most challenging work. It takes place exactly four years after the very first GMP Twitter Day.
The 24 hours will see:
•Details of all 3,000+ calls being tweeted as they happen
•The GMP Facebook account will be ‘taken over’ by officers providing details of how cases are investigated
•Video updates from officers working in complex areas such as public protection and negotiators
•Two community reporters will provide updates from custody and a response patrol
•Updates throughout the day from the 101 local police Twitter and Facebook accounts
Chief Constable Sir Peter Fahy said: “Since we held our first Twitter day in 2010 the force has shrunk by 1,400 officers and it has become more of a challenge to maintain the service to the public.
“Four years ago, people were surprised by the range of incidents we have to deal with and these have not changed. More of our work is about protecting vulnerable people, targeting those who abuse them and dealing with the consequences of entrenched social problems.
“We have a tremendous workforce that every day shows great dedication, patience and compassion. Our staff have great concern about the consequences of further reductions that we will face over coming years. We will need greater support from the public and continued changes to the way we work to get through this.”
Deputy Police and Crime Commissioner Jim Battle: “Twitter day gives the public an insight into a typical busy day for Greater Manchester Police. I’m sure the public will be surprised with the number of calls, the range of complex issues police deal with daily and how effective police officers are in protecting the public and our communities.
“Giving the public an insight into a day in the life of GMP will strengthen their support for officers and staff, who do extraordinary work in difficult circumstances. It also reinforces the case to government that investment in policing is essential and cutting police budgets is reckless.”
To follow what happens during the 24 hours people should check out the Twitter accounts @gmpday14_1, @gmpday14_2, @gmpday14_3 and @gmpday14_4 that will be used for the calls. Further details will be circulated on the force main Twitter account @gmpolice and Facebook GtrManchesterPolice, and if you are not on social media you can find it on the website www.gmp.police.uk
But simply follow the hashtag #gmp24 to see the activity unfold.
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Disclaimer: If you are not familiar with FriendFeed this post may not make so much sense to you. If you are familiar with FriendFeed, congrats to you, you're on the cutting edge. If you're not familiar with Twitter, what the hell rock have you been hiding under, time to stop taking so many photos and spend a little time on the internets no?
An interesting post over on FriendFeed by Steve Gillmor asking a simple question, "what is the delay between tweets and arrival in FriendFeed?" Steve is talking about how long it takes for a Friendfeed user's tweets on twitter to show up on FriendFeed. It's not the first time that Gillmor's raised this issue.
For those of you unfamiliar with FriendFeed, it is the current mother of all aggregators. It %*$*%ing rocks. FriendFeed pipes in all of your various playgrounds on the internet (Twitter, Flickr, Zooomr, Google Reader, your blog, Digg, Delicious, Reddit, etc. etc. etc.) into one easy to consume feed. It's been the most interesting thing to come out for a while. It's a better way to follow your flickr contacts, a better RSS reader than anything else you might be using right now, and one of the best communities currently on the web.
FriendFeed also though is probably the closet thing Twitter has to a real and viable competitor. As a photographer, the simple fact that FriendFeed offers visuals whereas Twitter is entirely text based alone is enough for me to call FriendFeed the superior platform. Essentially you can do anything on FriendFeed that you can do on Twitter but, well, better. In addition to posting real time post updates on FriendFeed (that are not limited to 140 characters) you get a far more complete run down on what your friends are up to.
The thing is though, one of the things that makes FriendFeed work so well is that you can leverage the existing larger communities elsewhere on the web at places like Flickr and Twitter. This is all possible because of cool things like open APIs and the whole culture of sharing kumbaya stuff that Web 2.0 (for lack of a better name) is supposed to be about. All our data belongs to us. All our data ought to be portable. Companies are able to thrive in 2.0 because they put our (the producers) best interests above theirs. You know the speech.
Unfortunately though, one thing that I've noticed in the past month is that my tweets that used to be instantaneously posted from Twitter to FriendFeed seem to be slowing down sometimes. I'm not sure why this is, but a part of me worries that maybe Twitter is doing something to slow down the firehose from Twitter to Friendfeed because they are afraid of FriendFeed as a competitor.
Last month Dave Winer suggested that the reason that FF isn't overtly challenging Twitter right now is because if they do, "they might find their firehose slows down or develops gltches it didn’t used to have." And, well, that's what it feels like may be happening. Do keep in mind that Winer did not accuse Twitter of this or any other wrong doing, he merely suggested it as a huge "if" as a possible scenario.
Now I have no idea if the reason why tweets do not seem to be posting as fast to FriendFeed as they used to has anything to do with Twitter. For all I know there could be a technical problem on FriendFeed's end causing this. But I think the fact that tweets have slowed down on FriendFeed deserves a conversation about the causes.
Of course two of the things that may raise FriendFeed as a greater competitor in the eyes of Twitter could be the recent move that FriendFeed made to allow people to auto subscribe to their Twitter contacts on FriendFeed and to automatically post their FriendFeed postings to their Twitter accounts. Every one of these FriendFeed updates posted to Twitter includes a link back to FriendFeed. This is probably a very useful tool for constantly reminding the Twitter community that a better way to do lifestreaming exists over at FriendFeed.
As an interesting side note, Robert Scoble suggests that in Twitter's recent move to begin "suggesting" Twitter users to new and existing subscribers that they seem to have bypassed the two FriendFeed users with the most followers, Scoble himself and Leo Laporte. Both of these users have been active on FriendFeed and Scoble probably more than any single other person has been instrumental in promoting FriendFeed as a service online. "I think Twitter is being threatened by friendfeed. The two most popular users of friendfeed (Leo and me) were left off of the twitter recommended friends list over on Twitter," says Scoble in the Gillmor's thread.
If you'd like to follow my updates on FriendFeed you can do that here. If you'd like to follow my updates on Twitter you can do that here too.
Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Tara Sonenshine, @TSonenshine, participates in a Global Twitter Q and A on December 5, 2012. [State Department photo/ Public Domain]
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"Siri, Apple Music and Other iPhone Questions" by BRIAN X. CHEN and FARHAD MANJOO via NYT t.co/dv1RWI6lRQ (via Twitter twitter.com/felipemassone/status/646411014456627200)
A history of Twitter from its foundation till today, together with a comparison of its main characteristics: users, visualizations, twitter usage in the U.S., and top tweeting cities in the World
You can find a full size version here:
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"Chris Sacca on Gender Inequality" by CNBC via NYT t.co/Tdp0GY7DjQ (via Twitter twitter.com/felipemassone/status/661912950303793152)