Tag Archives: socialmedia

Measuring relevant networks

Friday, December 12th, 2008

See our friends, see the sights, feel alright (Supergrass) Relevant net I’ve already mentioned the paper by Bernardo A. Huberman, Daniel M. Romero and Fang Wu about Twitter’s social networks (pdf). The point that interested me most was the distinction between contacts and friends. Especially for people with a liberal following policy (i.e. that follow back […]

Filed in Uncategorized | Also tagged , , , , , , , | Permalink | Comments (2)

Networks that matter on Twitter: the @-Crowd

Thursday, December 11th, 2008

Finally I found a research paper that analyzes Twitter from a network analytical perspective. The main message of the paper “Social networks that matter: Twitter under the microscope” by Huberman, Romero and Wu (see also Jeremiah Owyang’s summary) is: the number of people you follow on Twitter is not the whole truth. It’s more interesting […]

Filed in Uncategorized | Also tagged , , , , , , | Permalink | Comments (7)