Visualising How @skynews' Twitter Friends Connect

It seems as if Sky News has got itself in a bit of a muddle about how to engage on Twitter (Sky News clamps down on Twitter use)

For what its worth, here's a quick sketch of how the friends of @skynews (that is, the people on Twitter that the @skynews account follows) follow each other:

Skynews_fr_innerfriends

In a sense, the network hints at how the users @skynews follows rate each other...

Nodes are sized according to eigenvector centrality, and coloured according to modularity group, as identified by the Gephi Modularity statistic. The graph was also laid out using Gephi.

The small size of this version of the map makes it hard to make out the accounts to the right of the map, that aren't that well connected to the larger nodes. But if you do zoom in, it becomes obvious that they tend to be other Sky accounts...

Note that the map above does not include the @skynews account, though the following one does. (Note the orientation of the map has changed - I had to randomly lay it out again.. I also used slightly different layout settings, and didn't run the layout algorithm for as long. This partly makes the point that there is little "truthiness" in the layout, though it may be suggestive...)

Skynews_fr_innerfriends_inc

So: where's Wally@skynews?

Tony Hirst

Tony Hirst


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