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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[Jake Stine]

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.

[André Panisson]

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.

[Jake Stine]

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)

[André Panisson]

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? :)

[Jorge Felix]

1 dislike ---> Mubarak

[Math bournes]

interesting.



[fluttershy77x]

so awesome

[Cynthia Boaz]

^^ Agreed. I personally RT'd Andy many times during this period. Influential, not spammer!

[NeoMatudio]

technology is contagious. you needed to acquired it for you to go with the development and changes in the ways on how we communicate now.

[143mark6275]

they look like sperm.

[MrJayson786]

hyyyyggggyyyy

[happinesson]

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

[jimiydoorshamelech]

@poletheconvideo

Youtube: Arab Spring Prediction

[Pan Guohua]

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.