Birds of a Feather Tweet Together

Birds of a Feather Tweet Together

Itai Himelboim Department of Telecommunications

Grady CollegeThe University of Georgia

itai@uga.edu

What’s in a (Twitter) Network?

Self-selected information flow mapsfor specific topics

Follow, mention, reply

Divided We Tweet?

Clusters Hubs Density #s, URLs

#My2K ClustersInteracting Across the Aisle?

State of the Union

@Jjauthor

@stevenertelt

@Dbargen

@Katyinindy@atlasshrugs

@Postpolitics

@Thelastword

@OFA_FL

@OFA_NC@johnfmoore

Hubs

Information Sources

Political Social NetworksWe don’t talk with you, but we talk about you

We learn the news from different sources

Our information flows differently

#P2#TCOT

#TCOT#P2

Not all Twitter Graphs Look the Same

Thank you!

Itai Himelboim (itai@uga.edu)

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