Twitter networks

Analyzing Social Media Data in Python

Alex Hanna

Computational Social Scientist

Network analysis: terms

• Directed networks
  • Relationships are not mutual
• Source node
  • Where the arrow starts
• Target node
  • Where the arrow edges

¹ http://mathworld.wolfram.com/GraphEdge.html

Types of Twitter network ties

• Twitter networks
  • Retweets
  • Quotes
  • Replies

Retweet networks

Quote networks

Reply networks

Let's practice!

Analyzing Social Media Data in Python