The Egyptian Revolution on Twitter

Data collected with Gephi Graph Streaming.
This is a preliminary result of the network of retweets with the hashtag #jan25 at February 11 2011, at the time of the announcement of Mubarak's resignation. If you retweeted someone, or has been retweeted, it is possible that your username is in this network.

The data were collected through the Twitter streaming and search APIs by André Panisson, and is part of a research project involving the Computer Science Department of the University of Turin (www.di.unito.it), the Complex Networks and Systems Group of the ISI Foundation (www.isi.it), and the Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research of Indiana University (cnets.indiana.edu).

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[AirRichter]

I do like the visual for the obvious annoying spammer on the right side of the video at around 1:35. And you can tell because very few of the people they tweed'd ended up doing any retweets. They probably have him/her on ignore or something.

[panisson]

@AirRichter The "obvious annoying spammer" is Andy Carvin, and all people connected to him are connected because they actually retweeted him. I would call him very influent, not a spammer.

[AirRichter]

This looks neat and all, but this 'research' involves 3 research teams? Seriously? It's basic social networking theory. This has been the same story on 'viral' emails and other things since forever ago, and even happened with plain old phone calls to a smaller degree (general patterns, when graphed, look the same -- just they were smaller). Twitter just has the benefit of corporate interests who like to see it's name being linked with other popular/emotional public events. (ie, marketing)

[panisson]

@AirRichter This video is only a very small part of the ongoing research in these teams - it took only some hours to create it. For other projects, you can check, for example, the Sociopatterns project, or Truthy at Indiana University, for analysis on information spreading and also analysis of patterns in face-to-face contacts to understand information and viral spreading.

[JOSEPHKORSSIA]

What's this? Flock of birds? :)

[farzad2340]

Is there any software which we could use it to create such this video instead of using snap shot and then make a movie with such these number of photos?

[143mark6275]

they look like sperm.

[MrJayson786]

hyyyyggggyyyy

[happinesson]

cyber revolution is on! Watch out! it is epidemic!

[jimiydoorshamelech]

@poletheconvideo

Youtube: Arab Spring Prediction

[vjaypan]

nice video. you ever considered adding a "gravity" modifier, helping those heavy joints to "fall" into the center and push the small conversations to the side? i think that might help to get a clearer view of the growth / connection.

[mikealexaldana]

Me sigue pareciendo biológico el asunto es increible

[jfelixsouza]

1 dislike ---> Mubarak

[Bl4cKeN1nG]

Hope paints such a beautiful picture =)

Looks very decentralized and spontaneous. No one person could have done this.